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In addition to blogging here, Anatoly Karlin also runs Arctic Progress.
You can also read his articles at Inosmi (на русском) and Al Jazeera.
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Category Archives: Reviews
The Power Of Contingency: Why China Didn’t Rule The World
Pomeranz, Kenneth – The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (2001) Category: economy, history, world systems; Rating: 5*/5 Summary: Brad DeLong’s review; The Bactra Review; Are Coal and Colonies Really Crucial? It’s a rare book that not only … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion, The Sino Triumphalist
Tagged americas, china, cliodynamics, collapse, economy, europe, history, india, japan, russia, science, technology, thermoeconomics
71 Comments
How To Help Yourself In 15 Minutes
This is an unusual post. But I’ve always blogged under the assumption that my readers only read me because my work and ideas impart useful ideas (even if they disagree with them). That’s why I wrote a guide to blogging … Continue reading
Review of “The Lucifer Principle” (H. Bloom), or: Fascism is the Natural State
Depressingly fatalist, morbidly truthful, irresistibly Nietzschean. That’s Howard Bloom’s “The Lucifer Principle” in a nutshell: a meandering trawl through disciplines such as genetics, psychology and culture that culminates in a theory of evil, purporting to explain its historical necessity, its creative … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged authoritarianism, culture, demography, feminism, history, human rights, imperialism, islam, life, morale, politics, psychology, review, war, western hypocrisy
19 Comments
If Malthus and Ibn Khaldun were to meet for coffee…
Then you might get something like Peter Turchin’s War and Peace and War, which I’ve finally read on the recommendations of Kolya and TG. Ranging from Ermak’s subjugation of the Sibir Khanate to the rise of Rome, Turchin makes the … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged cliodynamics, collapse, corruption, demography, europe, history, islam, morale, review
21 Comments
Review of “Limits to Growth” (Meadows et al.)
If I could recommend just one book to someone with a business-as-usual outlook, someone who believes human ingenuity and free markets will always bail us out of any resource scarcity or environmental problem, it would be Limits to Growth: The 30-Year … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, climate change, collapse, economy, energy, pollution, resource depletion, review, Reviews, vision
8 Comments
Surviving Collapse Part 2
Having looked at Argentina’s mini-collapse in the early 2000′s, we will now turn to the classic modern case study of post-Soviet Russia, as recounted by Dmitry Orlov with my own commentary. Needless to say, as an emigrant from 1994 onwards, … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, chaos, collapse, culture, economy, life, morale, russians, soviet union, usa, vision
10 Comments
Surviving Collapse Part 1
As regular readers will know, I am rather fascinated by the phenomenon of collapse, i.e. the relatively quick fall in socio-political complexity that tends to accompany the fall of nations, empires, and civilizations. Now it’s all well and good to … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged chaos, collapse, corruption, culture, life, vision
5 Comments
Cliodynamics: Mathematizing History
One of the most interesting emerging sciences today, in my opinion, is cliodynamics. Their practitioners attempt to come to with mathematical models of history to explain “big history” – things like the rise of empires, social discontent, civil wars, and … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged china, collapse, corruption, demography, education, history, review, Reviews, science, technology
5 Comments
Review of “Guns, Germs, and Steel” (J. Diamond)
While trawling through my computer archives, I stumbled across this book review of Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel” from five years ago. Overall, it’s a great book, better than his follow-up “Collapse”, which is also interesting – especially in … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Reviews
Tagged agriculture, culture, demography, environment, pandemic, public health, review, science, technology
2 Comments
The Road to Economic Sovereignty
Review of “Kicking Away the Ladder” (H. Chang) Chang, Ha-Joon – Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002) Category: economy; history; industrial policy; Rating: 5/5 Summary: Kicking Away the Ladder:How the Economic and Intellectual Histories of Capitalism Have … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged china, corruption, economy, education, espionage, finance, france, germany, history, international relations, japan, review, Reviews, russia, sweden, uk, usa, western hypocrisy
5 Comments