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Housing in a Sane Global Economy – Starting Economics: Again!

The post on the new economics has very briefly outlined the key elements of an economy, in particular distinguishing two different circuits of production: a basic circuit (which produces the goods and services that enter into a community’s standard of living) and a surplus circuit which produces the means of production that are repeatedly used…

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Thinking is hard work

Thinking is hard work. As any student, post-grad or researcher will affirm, it bring with it many emotions – tension, anger, doubt, elation. To be a researcher involves being able to live with the tension between not-understanding and understanding. Where we reach or sense we might reach conclusions that upset our taken-for-granted beliefs and values,…