Relevant and even prescient commentary on news, politics and the economy.

You searched for: label/communication

I Confess, Graunt Didn’t Invent Economics…

…Graunt’s work brilliantly synthesized humanist methods of natural history and rhetorical communication that were basic to Aristotelianism with techniques of merchant bookkeeping in which population totals are treated as open…

The “Tapes” Threat

…confidential communication and advice. Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan may be too stupid to realize the implications or too corrupt to care but there is no putting this genie back…

Active Measures against the Spectacle

…in an illusory way to this fate by resorting to magical techniques. The acceptance and consumption of commodities are at the heart of this pseudo-response to a communication without response….