Ethics • Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect • Selected Letters by Baruch Spinoza
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Saw this while reading the online Brittanica Encylopeidia:Avatar wrote:Speaking of drummers, I quite enjoyed John Densmore's book Riders on the Storm.
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ShoebillThe Doors famously asserted that no one remembers your name when you’re strange, a fact to which this odd editor can personally attest. Hopefully, though, you’ll remember the names of some of these aberrations of the avian world. The beautiful feathered freaks on this list deserve their day in the sun.
Is that the one that came out around 2014 and was released in the US as just "Capital?" Or was it the follow-up published a few years later?DrPaul wrote:I'm currently some 400 pages into Thomas Piketty's 1100 page Capital and Ideology.
The main point I took from his work when I was reading it is that the only reliable way to compare buying power over time is by measuring labor. He suggests haircuts and lawyers, as the amount of labor required for each task has remained relatively constant for over two thousand yearspeter wrote:![]()
There are just some books where I am prepared to content myself with the Wikipedia summary - Picketty's works are amongst them. I'm sure they are very good.....but if the central points can be summed up in a few paragraphs without all of the dry background graphs and whatnot, then I'm all in for taking the easy route!
It's the follow-up, published in 2019.Rigel wrote:Is that the one that came out around 2014 and was released in the US as just "Capital?" Or was it the follow-up published a few years later?DrPaul wrote:I'm currently some 400 pages into Thomas Piketty's 1100 page Capital and Ideology.
I got a few chapters into Capital and found it interesting, but... Almost text-book dry. In the end, I simply forgot to keep reading it.