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The Performance is Over

August 17, 2023

The Performance is Over Even if the artists don’t realise it. Note: Last week’s comments got sidetracked into bad-tempered exchanges on climate change, which was not what the essay was about. I had several requests to delete comments that some people found offensive. I let them pass on that occasion, but as from now I […]

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On Psychopathy And Power

October 15, 2019

On Psychopathy And Power Due to a very painful and disturbing revelation in my personal life I have had the unfortunate occasion to spend the last several days thinking a lot about psychopaths and what makes them tick. I don’t want to get into the hairy details at this time, but I would like to share some […]

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Small Laws, Great Crimes: the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Act

January 28, 2019

Small Laws, Great Crimes: the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Act It’s been said that small laws breed great crimes.  The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Act is such a law.  The crimes committed against the people in its name are legion. But it got even more criminal last week when the Colorado Supreme Court decided the protection […]

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“It’s A Reunion For People Who Broke The World”: Author Explains Why Davos Should Be Cancelled

January 17, 2019

“It’s A Reunion For People Who Broke The World”: Author Explains Why Davos Should Be Cancelled Paris is burning, a large chunk of the US federal government is shut down and Britain is careening toward a delay of Article 50 – or possibly a second referendum – as the Brexit process descends into chaos, calls […]

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Industrial Agriculture and the Agrochemical Industry

February 2, 2018

Industrial Agriculture and the Agrochemical Industry The chemical-intensive industrial model of agriculture has secured the status of ‘thick legitimacy’. This status stems from on an intricate web of processes successfully spun in the scientific, policy and political arenas. It status allows the model to persist and appear normal and necessary. This perceived legitimacy derives from the […]

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An Introduction to Political Economy

December 21, 2017

An Introduction to Political Economy Last month, when I looked across the vast gray wasteland of the calendar page ahead and noted that there were five Wednesdays in November, I asked readers—in keeping with a newly minted but entertaining tradition here on Ecosophia—to suggest a theme for the fifth Wednesday post. This blog being the […]

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What you “Owe to Society”

August 11, 2015

What you “Owe to Society” The “Club Dues” Theory of Taxation Sadly this is an ancient thesis that’s being revived now in a country that was founded on denying it. The idea is well expressed in a recent book by Professor William E. Hudson, titled, The Libertarian Illusion: Ideology, Public Policy, and the Assault on the […]

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Deflation, Debt and Gravity

August 6, 2015

Deflation, Debt and Gravity Far too many people have already used lines like “We Are All Greeks Now” for the words to hold on to much if any meaning by now. But it’s still a very accurate description of what awaits us all. Just not for the same reasons most who used it, did. No, […]

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