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by LazyDog
March 22nd, 2009, 9:33 pm
Forum: Economics Forum
Topic: Old New Paradigms
Replies: 24
Views: 50369

Old New Paradigms

<t>Here are some quotes from Soddy on the nature of money (- the link given by navanit) - see attached document, which is in rich text format and zipped.Soddy is a wordy writer and it's hard to condense the quotes, but you do feel the glow of a real intellect and it would be glorious to see him unle...
by LazyDog
March 17th, 2009, 9:07 am
Forum: Economics Forum
Topic: Old New Paradigms
Replies: 24
Views: 50369

Old New Paradigms

<t>Thanks for the reference navanit - I'm going to have a quick read through of it over the next couple of days and then post some good quotations; it's about 244 pages in large type, but his style is rather more wordy than a modern ear is used to - it's quite clear though that the guy had some real...
by LazyDog
March 14th, 2009, 10:40 pm
Forum: Economics Forum
Topic: Old New Paradigms
Replies: 24
Views: 50369

Old New Paradigms

<t>Thanks for the responses, gentlemen; many good points.I thought it worthwhile to bring this deeply theoretical and philosophical question up now (- let's face it, 3 years ago a topic such as this would have been given short shrift) as it seems to be clear that something really -bad- has happened ...
by LazyDog
March 13th, 2009, 1:04 pm
Forum: Economics Forum
Topic: Old New Paradigms
Replies: 24
Views: 50369

Old New Paradigms

<t>Do any of you know of/have a critique of/can explain the economic theory of Frederick Soddy?Background (my crude understanding of it, so far) : Nobel winning chemist decides to learn about economics / finance / banking, tries and fails for two years, then is hit by a revelation ... it's all just ...