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Graunt Work

philosophy of determinism was possibly the most significant fact of the seventeenth century. The great creative minds in mathematics, biology, physics, etc., gradually came to view the world as an…

Mr. Etcetera

…historically determining forms in which the laws of political economy were first stated and further developed. In dealing with surplus-value I therefore exclude such eighteenth century writers as Brissot, Godwin…

Darwin Strauss and Popper

…called “wild type” but their ancestors haven’t been wild for about a century now. They have been bread in labs from each other. Interestingly when an actual wild male captured…

Public Works on a Vast Scale?

…and late 21st century? Whither developing job skills to ensure that broadband isn’t just something Google sells to Verison? Who will be the people ready to maintain and repair solar…

Adam Smith in a broader context

…and in what they have become to mean in the 21st century, as with the invisible hand metaphor, which after 60 years of truncated quoting and misapplying of it, its…