Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism (Theory and History of Literature, Vol. 7): Paul De Man: 9780816611355: Amazon.com. An Original Thinker of Our Time by Cass R. Sunstein. Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman Princeton University Press, 740 pp., $39.95 Albert Hirschman, who died late last year, was one of the most interesting and unusual thinkers of the last century. An anti-utopian reformer with a keen eye for detail, Hirschman insisted on the complexity of social life and human nature. He opposed intransigence in all its forms. He believed that political and economic possibilities could be found in the most surprising places. Hirschman is principally known for four remarkable books.
Finally, The Rhetoric of Reaction (1991) is a study of the reactionary’s tool kit, identifying the standard objections to any and all proposals for reform. Hirschman’s work changes how you see the world. The current debate over gun control is a case study in “the rhetoric of reaction.” In seeking to prove Hamlet wrong, Hirschman was suggesting that doubt could be a source not of paralysis and death but of creativity and self-renewal. Winter Is Coming | Opinion. For a show filled with fire-breathing dragons and Machiavellian politics, Game of Thrones is surprisingly rich with economic metaphors that resemble the world we live in.
To start, although the Seven Kingdoms of the Westoros continent, where the saga unfolds, have the social and technological characteristics of medieval Europe, its economy ebbs and flows like the modern business cycle. Seasons on the continent lasts years. For an agrarian society, summer is like an economic boom and winter is like an economic depression. The grumpy old characters often deride the young ones as “summer children,” who have not experienced the hardship of a prolonged winter. The wise Northmen’s motto? Winter is coming. And just like the fictional long winter, everyone knows that the economic depression is coming—but no one knows when. The economy of the Seven Kingdoms reached a sorry state during the show. But the fate of the Seven Kingdoms was perhaps sealed before the show’s start. Jonathan Z. Great Books Lists: Lists of Classics, Eastern and Western. As seen in A Guide to Oriental Classics, Whole Earth magazine, Winter 2002.
(A revised version of the article is available at author Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools site.) This page: Introduction | Western Canon | Eastern and World Canons | Contemporary Canon | Other Lists of Great Books | My Reading Lists | Indexes to these Great Books Lists Introduction Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) What are the Great Books? Western Canon Eastern and World Canons Approaches to the Asian Classics. Contemporary Canon Other Lists of Great Books Other Lists of Great Books - An annotated bibliography of some other sources of Great Books lists, both in books and on the Web My Reading Lists My Reading Lists (Ancient Near East, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, China, Middle Ages) Indexes to these Great Books Lists.
A Great Day for Philosophy at Rutgers. The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. Along with the words to be offered here is an interesting artifact— a photograph of an assembly of some of the most important and influential philosophers of the latter half of the 20th century on one fine day in April in 1984 in front of the Hyatt Hotel in downtown New Brunswick, N.J. And of course there is a story behind it. It begins with Donald Davidson , who died in 2003 at the age of 86, one of the most important philosophers of the latter half of the 20th century. Davidson’s philosophy is unusually unified for someone making contributions to so many areas. But this unity is difficult to appreciate because it is represented exclusively in a series of compressed, even cryptic, articles he wrote over the course of more than 40 years. No event symbolizes Davidson’s standing within that landscape better than a conference that took place at Rutgers University in April of 1984.
And now, to the photo. John Thomas Financial Power Phrase #32: “We Know What We’re Doing” Would it surprise you to know that a boiler room operation that doesn’t let junior employees sit down would instruct its employees to cold call potential investors using lines from a script that include such “power phrases” as “This account will come back to you in spades” and “Give me just 1% of your trust and confidence and I will earn the other 99%”?
That a place whose founder thought making cameos in Shia LaBeouf movies was a good idea would tell those same employees to say things like “If I am half right, we go out for a steak dinner on you…is that fair enough?”? Re: Think About It “Wouldn’t it be nice for once in your life to get there ahead of the major institutions? I’d like you to start a relationship with (firm) and buy (shares) or (stock).” Re: Have Other Brokers “Great! Re: I Only Use Local Brokers “Bottom line, I don’t care if I am sending you smoke signals from Alaska as long as I make you money. 90% of business today is done over the phone or the internet. Re: Power Closes. A Fine Theorem. The Thoreau Poison: Shane Carruth's 'Upstream Color' “There is something deeply and indefinably interesting in the swinish race,” the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, in 1841, from Brook Farm, the Massachusetts commune where he was helping to care for pigs and other livestock.
“They appear the more a mystery, the longer you gaze at them; it seems as if there was an important meaning to them, if you could but find out.” A viewer of Shane Carruth’s new movie “ Upstream Color ” may come away with a similar feeling. In Carruth’s movie, two lovers are mysteriously linked to each other, and to two pigs. The lovers may even care a little more for the pigs than for each other. The nature of the link is so gruesome that I spent a fair part of the movie’s first twenty minutes yelping, writhing in my chair, and covering my eyes—to the mortification, I suspect, of the other patrons in the movie theatre, who took in the scenes with the equanimity typical of supercool Williamsburg.
In “Upstream Color,” the hero is a parasitic worm. What Happens at the End of Infinite Jest? (or, the Infinite Jest ending explained) WARNING: This whole thing is one gigantic spoiler. Only read it if you’ve already tried to figure it out for yourself first. Gately, having relived his bottom, begins to recover from his infection. But at the same time, Hal’s condition deepens. Ever since Hal ate the mold as a child, he’s been a brilliant communicator but unable to feel. (694: “Hal himself hasn’t had a bona fide intensity-of-interior-life-type emotion since he was tiny … in fact he’s far more robotic than John Wayne.”) JOI was the only one who could see it.
In life, everyone thought JOI was just being crazy but in death (as a wraith) he can actually read Hal’s thoughts and thus confirm his view. In life he created the Entertainment to draw Hal out (Hal moves outwardly but doesn’t feel inside; victims of the Entertainment feel—something—inside but don’t move outwardly). JOI’s wraith is responsible for the strange disturbances around ETA — tripods in the forest, moving Ortho’s bed, ceiling tiles on the floor.
Thank you. Reading list. 7538 (Objet application/pdf) Bibliographie. Books that should be read before starting a Ph.D. in economics « Mostly Economics. Ajay Shah points to some books one should read before starting a PHD in economics: I thought it’s useful to pick a set of books that touch on the great themes of the world, often going into troublesome terrain that the models aren’t very good at, so as to lay a foundation of background knowledge and historical knowledge which can pave the way to usefully assimilating what’s taught in the economics Ph.D. Of course, they should be books that are fun to read and un-putdownable. Here’s my suggested compact checklist of books worth reading. Please do suggest books, and disagree with this list, in the comments to this post. He says one could disagree/add more books on the comments section. I am not mch into reading economics books (for lack of time) so not much to say or add. Still would add Keynes epic — The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
Like this: Like Loading... Book Review - The Anatomy of Influence - By Harold Bloom. LRB · Donald MacKenzie · How to Make Money in Microseconds. What goes on in stock markets appears quite different when viewed on different timescales. Look at a whole day’s trading, and market participants can usually tell you a plausible story about how the arrival of news has changed traders’ perceptions of the prospects for a company or the entire economy and pushed share prices up or down.
Look at trading activity on a scale of milliseconds, however, and things seem quite different. When two American financial economists, Joel Hasbrouck and Gideon Saar, did this a couple of years ago, they found strange periodicities and spasms. The most striking periodicity involves large peaks of activity separated by almost exactly 1000 milliseconds: they occur 10-30 milliseconds after the ‘tick’ of each second.
Little of this has to do directly with human action. Human beings can, and still do, send orders from their computers to the matching engines, but this accounts for less than half of all US share trading. Speeds are increasing all the time. Graphing the history of philosophy « Drunks&Lampposts. A close up of ancient and medieval philosophy ending at Descartes and Leibniz If you are interested in this data set you might like my latest post where I use it to make book recommendations. This one came about because I was searching for a data set on horror films (don’t ask) and ended up with one describing the links between philosophers.
To cut a long story very short I’ve extracted the information in the influenced by section for every philosopher on Wikipedia and used it to construct a network which I’ve then visualised using gephi It’s an easy process to repeat. It could be done for any area within Wikipedia where the information forms a network. I chose philosophy because firstly the influences section is very well maintained and secondly I know a little bit about it. At the bottom of this post I’ve described how I got there. First I’ll show why I think it’s worked as a visualisation. It has been fairly successful. The Continental Tradition Now for how you do it. Simon Like this: The Best Textbooks on Every Subject. For years, my self-education was stupid and wasteful. I learned by consuming blog posts, Wikipedia articles, classic texts, podcast episodes, popular books, video lectures, peer-reviewed papers, Teaching Company courses, and Cliff's Notes.
How inefficient! I've since discovered that textbooks are usually the quickest and best way to learn new material. That's what they are designed to be, after all. Less Wrong has often recommended the "read textbooks! " method. But textbooks vary widely in quality. What if we could compile a list of the best textbooks on every subject? Let's do it. There have been other pages of recommended reading on Less Wrong before (and elsewhere), but this post is unique. Post the title of your favorite textbook on a given subject.You must have read at least two other textbooks on that same subject.You must briefly name the other books you've read on the subject and explain why you think your chosen textbook is superior to them.
Subject: History of Western Philosophy.