mahablog.com - 4/10/2009
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Eric Hobsbawm writes in The Guardian about the economic realities of the 21st century .
The 20th century is well behind us, but we have not yet learned to live in the 21st, or at least to think in a way that fits it. That should not be as difficult as it seems, because the basic idea that ...
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk - 4/13/2009
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 4/10/2009
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... a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence it brings is a means and not an end. Lovely thought, that, but it does bring up the question of what “end” we’re looking for, and we’re hardly likely to find social consensus there — call it a contradiction of Marxism. In any case, Barbara O’Brien of the Mahablog anticipates a few other criticisms Hobsbawm is likely to engender and attempts to nip them in the bud. The True Believers of both sides will argue no, no, no, pure ...
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