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Excerpt From “De-Growth in the Suburbs, A Radical Urban Imaginary.” Part 3

EXCERPT FROM “DE-GROWTH IN THE SUBURBS, A RADICAL URBAN IMAGINARY. “ PART 3 The Limits to Capital Are we at the threshold of the apocalyptic ‘next world’ that scientist James Lovelock (2009) speaks of? Put differently, is the human species now at the precipice of natural default and the massive societal change it must surely […]

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A Gangster State

A Gangster State Max Weber defined a key attribute of a state as holding the monopoly on the legitimate exercise of violence within a given territory. For anybody other than the state to use substantive physical force against you or to imprison you is regarded as an extremely serious crime. The state itself may however […]

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Cradles of Capitalism: The City-States of Greece and Italy

CRADLES OF CAPITALISM: THE CITY-STATES OF GREECE AND ITALY There long has been a persistent academic debate as to whether an “ancient economy,” referring mainly to Greece, even existed at all. In a field dominated by Marx, Marxists, the 19th century sociologist Max Weber, and such scholars of renown as Sir Moses Finley, the lingering image […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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Olduvai II: Exodus
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