Reveries

Hi everybody! As you know, I am very busy writing my doctoral dissertation to write an exclusive post to the blog right now. Anyway, as I am discussing the ideological question in the postmodern approach, I just found this debate between Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, which I would like to share with you. Have [...]

Dear all, I know it’s more than one month I’m not writing. I’m writing my PhD dissertation with a great dedication. I really need to end it soon. However, as usual, I’ve been thinking about economic development. One of nowadays most interesting thinkers is Ha-Joon Chang from Cambridge. He has been in Riga talking about [...]

I don’t have time to post some comments I would like by now. Anyway, here there’s a nice interview with John Kenneth Galbraith. Hope it helps to open minds in Latvia. Enjoy!

A revolutionary group in Brazil called MR-8 (Movimento Revolucionario 8 de outubro) because of the day Che Guevara was arrested in Bolivia, still exists and supports one of the worst Brazilian politician, Orestes Quercia. They concluded that Quercia is the only one able to make things in Brazil so bad, that people will end their [...]

Because today is Friday…

Veiko Spolitis just sent this video to me this morning.

A very interesting video of Fernando de Solo, Joseph Stiglitz and Naomi Klein discussing economic power. The main questions issued are: What is the role of the U.S. in the disposition of the world’s economic and environmental resources? How are financial markets best defended from economic shock? Does liberalization ensure prosperity? Enjoy!

Prof. Barry Eichengreen from UC Berkley discusses in this video the current crisis. Very recommend!

Some time ago, I’ve published the analysis of Bird and Fortune about the financial crash. Here we go with some more!

To start the week with positive vibrations, here is a promotional video about Latvia, produced by the Latvian Institute. In my opinion it’s beautiful and positive, showing nice things of and about the country. However, some pseudo-intelectuals wannabes and other people desliked. Maybe they were aiming to see not a nice video but something showing [...]