Category: Articles and news stories
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Wendell Berry on “The Idea of a Local Economy”
In these days of international economic crisis–days when the economic underpinnings of the global economy are being exposed as seriously flawed–it is worth looking at other ways forward. Â What is new about this global financial crisis is that no one can see how it can be reversed by policy intervention: the fiscal and monetary levers…
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Ian Lowe’s “A Big Fix”
-1- One of the more unexpected legacies of the Howard era has been the emergence of a coterie of genuine public intellectuals; or rather, people who think for a living and have decided, because of the urgency of the times, to enter the more open eras of public discourse. They have, in fact, created a…