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 [...]

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!

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 [...]