Sitemap - 2025 - Lorenzo from Oz
Understanding the Great Enrichment: how mass prosperity replaced mass poverty
Owning people, owning animals, controlling attributes
Conventions, conventions everywhere! (Also culture, pacification, law…)
Property before the state, before law
Collapse of confidence, destruction of trust
The civilisational disaster of Anglo-American academe
The EU as (imperial) substitute for empire
The evolution and dynamics of left-progressivism
Being a cultural species. Bravado in the absence of order (4)
Bravado in the absence of order (3)
Bravado in the absence of order (2)
Bravado in the absence of order (1)
The lazy self-righteousness of the unaccountable classes
The plunder lie about Western wealth
The Newtonian delusion: there is nothing so dated as a vision of the future
How institutional capture happened
The struggles of states, the contentions of classes
Life is algorithmic. Is the Universe?
The limits of social science (II)
The limits of social science (I)
The misleading burden of self-consciousness
Unlearning false simplicities within mainstream Economics
I have voted, I will be speaking
Economics: a discipline committing suicide?
From the Soil (II): Understanding China in the World
From the Soil (I): Understanding China
Civilisation analysis: I am unpersuaded yet bothered
The West continues to imitate Dynastic Cycle China
Culture is an emergent phenomenon (II)
Culture is an emergent phenomenon (I)
If you call everyone who disagrees with you racist and fascist they might start to say yes
Taking in Palestinian refugees is a very bad idea
WEIRD (Western Educated Industrialised Rich Democratic) means no kin-groups
Maritime order versus continental anarchy
Anti-discrimination law has proved to a well-intentioned mistake
My local cafe shows the difference between being multi-ethnic and multi-cultural
Totalitarians and useful idiots
The strange dance of progressive course correction
Don’t believe “crank the handle” or “legoland” (assemble the blocks) theories of economic growth