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Greed is Good

By chris | Published: 17 October 2009
Following on my ethics of finance theme, the Goldman Sachs profits and the Lloyds bid to get out of the UK toxic asset insurance scheme there has been much discussion of just what is going on. This side of the pond first. In response to the Lloyds move, Simon Jenkins wrote a blistering piece in the [...]
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Meditation: Robinson on Civilization (iii)

By chris | Published: 6 October 2009
This is the final post in an experimental series in which I present successive paragraphs of an extract from Marilynne Robinson’s introduction to her Death of Adam essays. Here I make up the extract with the third and final paragraph, with the whole extract presented.
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Meditation: Marilynne Robinson on Civilization (ii)

By chris | Published: 5 October 2009
Following on from yesterday’s post, the first in an experimental series in which I present successive paragraphs of an extract from Marilynne Robinson’s introduction to her Death of Adam essays, here is the second paragraph.  I am accumulating the three paragraph extract so today’s post starts with paragraph I posted yesterday.
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Meditation: Marilynne Robinson on Civilization (i)

By chris | Published: 4 October 2009
I have been rereading some of Marilynne Robinson’s essays from The Death of Adam. It is difficult to do justice to them and I won’t try, but I would like to quote three paragraphs from her introduction. Knowing how I read on line, I am going to do this over three days. Her prose [...]
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