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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done”

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I see that Penguin are reissuing Karl Polanyi's Great Transformation as a Penguin Classic.

About time; for many critical political economists Polanyi has been one of the key figures underpinning work on social forces in economics.

The last re-release (the 'third edition') had a high profile forward by Joseph Stiglitz, this edition has a forward by well known Polanyi scholar Gareth Dale.

If you only read on book on economics this year, make it the Great Transformation.


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I see the Observer has a Polanyi piece today.

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I sometimes thought my father thought he could't die while he still had books on his pending pile (a stab at immortality I seem to be replicating)... so, it was strangely touching to see Tom Gauld has had similar thoughts.

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Cartoon: man talking to ghost - frame one: Man, 'I thought you'd died' Ghost (reading a book), 'My life has ended but I cannot pass over to the spirit realm when so much remains undone' frame two: Man, 'you mean all these books you bought and never got round to reading?' Ghost (floating next to a full/overflowing bookshelf), 'It won't take long, there are fewer distractions when you're dead'. frame three, A few months later: Man, 'Is it me or are these piles getting bigger?' Ghost (now surrounded by books), 'My library card still works, but once I I've read these I'll start on the ones in the attic'.
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    • BashStKid ,
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    You don’t have to be all Eco about libraries to sympathise.
    Not so long ago, if you were eager to fill up on Penguins, or recipes, or history, or a bunch of Haynes manuals, or what a friend was excited about, you bought it.
    Your reach always exceeds your grasp, so you end up with a buffer pile to get round to when you have time, or might just need one day.
    And who doesn’t want all those friends and connections and memories taking over the wall space?

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