Category Archives: Wealth

Notes on the Dynamics of Human Civilization: The Growth Revolution, Part I

Tags:Complex Systems, Demographics, Energy, History, On Humanity, Wealth

The following series is an attempt to make some sense of that most peculiar of subjects: human civilization. My interest lies in the dynamics of civilized societies: their material needs and limitations, the recurring patterns of geography, social organization, and cultural complexity upon which they are built, and the type of interactions that define their […]

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Imagining India Without Two Centuries of British Rule

Tags:Bharat, History, Wealth

Economic historian Angus Maddison provides us with our first “Intriguing Passage of the Week”: It is interesting to speculate on India’s fate if it had not had two centuries of British rule. There are three major alternatives which can seriously be considered. One would have been the maintenance of indigenous rule with a few foreign […]

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Futuristics, Geopolitics, and National Resilience

Tags:Bharat, Futuristics, The Middle Kingdom, Wealth

Earlier this month Antoly Karlin (of Sublime Oblivion) wrote an interesting post outlining several possible trajectories India may take in the near future. A fair amount of the post is devoted to comparing India with Asia’s other billion-person behemoth, China. The two giants are likely to remain engaged in intense strategic competition for the next […]

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Notes From All Over (05/7/2010).

Tags:Bharat, Climate, COIN, Culture, Environmentalism, Geography, Notes From All Over, Oligarchy, Pakistan, Wealth

A collection of articles, essays, and blog post of merit. THE REPUBLIC The Polarization of Job Opportunities in the U.S. Labor Market: Implications for Employment and Earnings David Autor. Center for American Progress. April 2010. In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That Catherine Rampell. New York Times. 21 June 2010. Financial Revolving Doors: […]

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Notes From All Over 13/06/2010

Tags:Africa, Bharat, COIN, Ecology, Geopolitics, Korea, Military Affairs, Notes From All Over, Strategy, Wealth

A collection of articles, essays, and blog post of merit. As I have spent much of the last two weeks away from the blogosphere, this one is a bit smaller than usual. THE REPUBLIC Commentator’s DiseaseFred Reed. Fred on Everything. 11 June 2010. Mr. Reed identifies what is perhaps the greatest flaw of our pundit […]

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Notes From All Over 10/05/2010

Tags:Bharat, Diplomacy, Domestic Politics, History, Military Affairs, Notes From All Over, Pakistan, Russia, Strategy, The Middle Kingdom, Wealth

A collection of articles, essays, and blog post of merit.  A lot of good material has been published this week. I am a bit on the busy side, so the usual long winded responses will be replaced in favor of one-sentence summaries. THE REPUBLIC How Trillion Dollar Deficits Were Created New York Times. 9 June […]

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Musings – How We Ought To Think About History

Tags:History, Narrative, Possessions For All Time, Wealth

I often find myself frustrated with the lack of historical perspective present in contemporary political discourse. History is something pundits have little use for– why bother when one can blame society’s problems on the politicians one wishes driven out of office? This proclivity to see evil only in the machinations of one’s political opponents is […]

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