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Sure, it might be cruel, but intensive farming saves lives

Authors: Rayner, J. Source: (2008) Call Number: 151 URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2239989,00.html Abstract: A couple of years ago, during the recording of a food quiz on Radio 4, I ...

biblio - dan - 16/01/2008 - 11:29 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Engineers and Planners

Authors: Hayek, F.A. Source: (1952) Call Number: 152 URL: http://www.mises.org/story/2782 (academic, unread, economic calculation) ...

biblio - dan - 16/01/2008 - 11:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed

Authors: Scott, J.C. Source: Yale University Press (1998) Call Number: 155 (academic, go back to, 5 stars, complexity, maps, planning) ...

biblio - dan - 22/01/2008 - 22:39 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

22:55 - restate my assumptions

It was a night of the long knives for my PhD last week. After much internal bickering amongst the various factions, some of them produced evidence that the leader of the powerful 'planned economy' clique were being funded by the French in a secret p ...

Blog entry - dan - 22/01/2008 - 23:01 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales From Evolutionary Economics

Authors: Shermer, M. Source: Times Books, London (2008) Call Number: 158 URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/23/AR2008012303386.html Notes: Tyler Cowen's review // Revie ...

biblio - dan - 31/01/2008 - 15:09 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Why make things simple when one can make them complicated?

Just started reading Manuel DeLanda's 'A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity' 1 - a brave title! But it's got me braincells going on a Monday, so it can't be all bad. He's immediately argued against reductionism at ...

Blog entry - dan - 04/02/2008 - 15:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems and Adaptation

Authors: Flake, G.W. Source: London, MIT (1998) Call Number: 160 (academic, go back to, 4 stars, hardcopy, complexity) ...

biblio - dan - 04/02/2008 - 15:29 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity

Authors: DeLanda, M. Source: Continuum, London (2008) Call Number: 161 (academic, go back to, hardcopy, complexity) ...

biblio - dan - 04/02/2008 - 15:34 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Burma's Jade Mines: Between hell and the Stone of Heaven

Authors: Levy, A. ; Scott-Clark, C. Source: (2001) Call Number: 162 Abstract: More than a million miners desperately excavate the bedrock of a remote valley hidden in the shadows of the Himalayas. They are in ...

biblio - dan - 05/02/2008 - 16:13 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditisation as Process

Authors: Kopytoff, I. Source: The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1986) Call Number: 163 (academic, go back to, economics, social life of things, t ...

biblio - dan - 05/02/2008 - 16:25 - 0 comments - 0 attachments