A Thinking Reed

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed" – Blaise Pascal

Checking in

Still on vacation – currently staying with some friends outside of the City of Angels. Boy, the California livin’ seems easy when the sun’s shining and the breeze is blowing. A little warm for my blood, but there you are.

Tomorrow we fly back to Boston and then have exactly one week to pack before our move to Washington, DC. The ATR household will be spending at least the next year in our nation’s capital.

I’ve been reading the Daly/Cobb book while on vacation. Very interesting stuff so far. They want to call attention to the limitations of the abstractions employed by economics that tend to isolate the workings of the market from real life. I think they make a good case, but am just getting into the section on the concrete implications of their vision. Their strongest point so far is that the size of the economy in relation to the larger ecosystem matters and that economics isn’t very good at taking this into account.

Here’s a little Friday metal. More substantive posting will hopefully resume next week.

UNEARTH – “Sanctity Of Brothers”

One response to “Checking in”

  1. Glad to hear the vacation’s going well for you guys. As for me, I have the second half of Barton Fink to watch. From the sound of it, LA has been more forgiving to you than it was to Barton.

    With respect to weaknesses in economics abstractions, I very much enjoyed some of Amartya Sen’s writing on the subject (I took a course for which he and Christine Jolls served as co-lecturers … Sen’s style was not unlike an old Eastern Drunken Master … or Yoda, I suppose). Be forewarned though: I’m an economics simpleton.

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