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People & Things in Motion: Economics and the Future
Saturday 2:30 PM EST
26 February 2022
The Dismal Science seems to analyze and involve most aspects of our lives. While traditional macroeconomics continues to concern itself with natural rates of inflation and unemployment, with tariffs and taxes, with supply and demand, at both the meso- and micro-levels, economics has productively linked with sociology, social history, anthropology, and psychology. The field of behavioral economics , having adopted the methodology of experimental psychology, is now a full-fledged subgenre within the field. Many of its fascinating and useful insights have in turn seeded new lines of investigation in these sister disciplines. Continue reading People & Things in Motion: Economics and the Future with the Helix Center
Click Here to Read: A Holocaust Survivor’s Bearing Witness by Henri Parens from The Decision to Write My Holocaust Memoirs, Chapter 6 from The Power of Witnessing: Reflections, Reverberations, and Traces of the Holocaust: Trauma, Psychoanalysis, and the Living Mind edited by Nancy Goodman and Marilyn Meyers New York: Routledge, 2012.
Click Here to Read: British archaeologists found a 5,000-year-old drum and three children locked in a neolithic embrace By William Booth on the Washington Post website on February 12, 2022.
The Folkton Drums, Neolithic, 2600-2000 BC Found in East Yorkshire, England. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Avraham Stern, the Warrior-Poet killed by the British: Eighty years after his death, what is the source of the increased interest in his life and views? Daniel Gordis on the Substack website on February 14, 2022.
Photo of Avraham Stern (1907-1942), leder of the extremist zionist organisation Lehi and former member of the direction of Irgun. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
