My book RICARDO’S DREAM - a 'simply brilliant' critique of mainstream economics - came out in Nov '24. Fellow of Schumacher Institute. Formerly with Global Witness & PEP. www.natdyer.com
Nat Dyer
Today, Wednesday, in London. Come join me!
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This Saturday, March 28, I will speak on Capitalism: A Global History. If in town, come join me.
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and 90s so it's a complete lift from her book. And I acknowledge that throughout the book: the book [The Global Casino] is dedicated to her. She understood this stuff long before anyone else and has never really been, as we're so used to, given credit for it."
Susan Strange saw global finance as a casino back in the 1980s and inspired Ann Pettifor's new book 'The Global Casino' as she explains here...
www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkx8dd...
The House at the Edge of Magic kids books by Amy Sparkes are just brilliant! So full of wild imagination, vivid characters, heart and adventure.
I've just finished reading the 4th one to my 9 year-old and we've both loved them.
Modern environmental movement makes little sense without this cosmic view...
Pleased I have now, and it took me into a deep dive in NME in the 1970s as well as the truly impressive thinking and work of Stuart Hall.
The world is always bigger and wilder than we'll ever know
I saw this quote while at Goldsmiths the other week and have to admit that I'd never heard of Mark Fisher before...
The great Sven Beckert in the UK this week!
The analogy of global finance as a casino was, @annpettifor.bsky.social says, "used first by John Maynard Keynes, and then subsequently by a wonderful woman... she founded the field of international political economy, Susan Strange. And she was writing about casino capitalism back in the 80s....
