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Amy's Folly: Once the Roof Goes
One of the cardinal rules of writing is that you should seek to show, not to tell.
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Amy Olberding
It's Not exactly a linear Digression, but it starts like a fine academic satire.
A few months ago, I am not exactly sure when, I received a pdf from an anonymous account.
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nescio13
The Benthamite-Liberal critique of John Locke
John Bowring (1792 – 1872) created and published a (1834) Benthamite text known as “History of the Greatest Happiness Principle” published near the end…
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Some Indignation in Spinoza and Machiavelli and Adam Smith
In the third part of Spinoza’s Ethics, Spinoza repeatedly claims (in Curley’s translation) that “Hatred toward him who has done evil to another” is…
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nescio13

June 2025

On Pettigrew on De Cruz on Machiavelli and Du Bois
Richard Pettigrew (Bristol) wrote a lovely tribute (here) to Helen de Cruz (1978-2025) in which he tried to capture the distinctiveness (and I would say…
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nescio13
Arthur Lewis as Smithian; and the Kuhn-loss as an arbitrage opportunity
In two recent posts (recall here and here), I explored the significance of Eric Williams’ respectful engagement with Adam Smith (in his very early…
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nescio13
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Helen de Cruz (1978-2025), RIP
Please consider donating to this fundraising effort (here) to support Helen de Cruz’s family.
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nescio13
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On the Citadel of Marxian Political Economy; Lange 1935 again
Yesterday I digressed on the implied theory of exploitation in O.
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nescio13
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On Another Theory of Marxian Exploitation with Oscar Lange and Paul Samuelson
In a forthcoming review by my friend, M.A.
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nescio13
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Running notes on Schuringa's A Social History of Analytic Philosophy, pt. 3 (Chapter 2)
This is my third post on Christoph Schuringa’s (2025) A Social History of Analytic Philosophy (Verso; hereafter: Social History; my first post (recall…
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nescio13
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Running notes on Schuringa's A Social History of Analytic Philosophy, pt. 2 (Chapter 1)
In my first post (recall here) on the introduction of Schuringa’s (2025) A Social History of Analytic Philosophy (Verso; herafter: Social History), I…
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nescio13
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Amy's Folly: The Armor of God
The Armor of God
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Amy Olberding
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