“The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished.” SaidPoliticalEconomyModernCrisisWestFinancialIdeologyFrightenedPollutionThey SaidEconomistPrevailingFinancial CrisisPolitical Economy Author:James Buchan
“The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.” PhilosophyPoliticalCoursesGivenEconomyModernTruth IsBagsStationsPlasticCommerceTimelessFillingPolitical EconomyPlastic BagsPenicillin Author:James Buchan
“The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.” YearsFirstsWellsAgeModernMiddleUnderstoodForgottenCyclesCommerceRemindersMiddle AgesFamineAntiquityModern Times Author:James Buchan
“In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.” PeopleNeedsWishCitiesModernAgencyDistinctionModern Society Author:James Buchan
“Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.” WorldWarStruggleViolenceModernCenturyEuropeSuicidePropertyEastRussiaWar Of The WorldsVietnamSuicidalTacticsExclusiveVietnam War19th CenturyBombingSecond World WarMuslim WorldSri Lanka Author:James Buchan
“When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register (NAR), which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury "the modern Domesday Book".” BookResultsModernLondonRealmsBrownAssetsRegisterSurveysTreasuryInquisitionBoomers Author:James Buchan
