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@KenLowry8 @johnrobb And while we're on the topic of abstraction as enslavement...

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Thoreau noted a hundred and sixty years ago that we had grown imprisoned by the abstractions we created. His longest chapter in Walden is titled, and decries our growing enslavement to, “Economics."~James Hollis
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Copy of tweet from @SophiaCycles 10/12/22 Thoreau noted a hundred and sixty years ago that we had grown imprisoned by the abstractions we created. His longest chapter in Walden is titled, and decries our growing enslavement to, “Economics."~James Hollis

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 12 Oct 2022

@SophiaCycles Don't know if I ever mentioned I began my working life as a financial journalist in the world’s richest square mile. My brief? International-capital-markets primary-market syndication, central bank regulation, and sovereign debt. Moneytheism, then.

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Quoted by@fstflofscholars @urbnscl My business school dean, one of Thatcher's monetary advisors. Peculiarly for those times, he sang a religio-economic song. As, unnoticed, did Thatcher and Murdoch, who literally went to church together. I presume you've encountered McCarraher's piece? ?s=20&t=dJpTd9PrjVANGbBctfKMgQ