The Politics of Debt

Reflections on anything not covered somewhere else. The place where everything that can’t be categorized finds its place.

I stumbled upon Beatrice Gerard’s Hunting for Sparrows when looking for some light reading for the weekend. It’s a thriller, but it underlines two different philosophies of economic development. There is action and the rest, of course, and a good dose of, what shall I call it, eroticism, but what struck my attention was the debate between Supply Side [...]

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