By Seuss! Theodor Geisel, taxidermist
Tremendous.
“Empirically sufficient and empirically necessary” – Lant Pritchett on economic growth as the (only) key to poverty reduction
Recommended. Abstract We show that any cross-national measure of human material wellbeing that is (i) basics (not luxuries),(ii) general (uses indicators from multiple domains), and(iii)… Read More »“Empirically sufficient and empirically necessary” – Lant Pritchett on economic growth as the (only) key to poverty reduction
Emperor of Ruins (Lovecraftian anthropology; Kremlin psychodrama)
In the second installment of James Lovegrove’s tremendous Sherlock Holmes / H. P. Lovecraft mashup, Moriarty – assumed dead – has returned as the god… Read More »Emperor of Ruins (Lovecraftian anthropology; Kremlin psychodrama)
The M&M Rider
Van Halen famously* included a clause in their standard contract with concert venues, buried among technical specifications for staging and sound equipment, that the band… Read More »The M&M Rider
100 Years of Cinema: The Making of Snow White
With 1.5 million individual drawings sketched, transferred to transparent cells, hand coloured and composited into over 350 thousand frames… Walt changed the game when it… Read More »100 Years of Cinema: The Making of Snow White
Siddhartha at the beach (Lessons from surfing #6)
“…Everyone takes, everyone gives, such is life.” “But if you don’t mind me asking: being without possessions, what would you like to give?” “Everyone gives… Read More »Siddhartha at the beach (Lessons from surfing #6)
Meetings as metric
Holding a meeting – getting people in the same place at the same time with a shared agenda – is the very simplest thing a… Read More »Meetings as metric
Writing and Reading as Technology (13): Erik Engheim on Gutenberg vs earlier Asian printing technologies
Hat tip: HNWith apologies to subscribers who received post 14 of this series out of order due to my enthusiasm for the subject matter… …… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (13): Erik Engheim on Gutenberg vs earlier Asian printing technologies
Writing and Reading as Technology (14): Magical Paper Sizes; or, The Golden Non-Ratio
We often have convenience now because someone did the maths before. Ben Sparks With apologies to subscribers who received this out of order due to… Read More »Writing and Reading as Technology (14): Magical Paper Sizes; or, The Golden Non-Ratio
Joseph Schumpeter on qualitative gains from capitalist growth
Here’s Joseph Schumpeter laying out some key features of the importance of (capitalist?) economic growth in 1942. [This Lant Pritchett on broad based economic growth… Read More »Joseph Schumpeter on qualitative gains from capitalist growth