The invention of fiat money The invention of fiat money was necessary for capitalism to emerge. Of course, money as such appeared much earlier; everybody has seen Roman coins or something similar. But, those were not money as we know it (even though there may be some...
In these first decades of the 21st century, it looks as if the whole planet, including ourselves, is on a runaway train. In previous periods, the issue pertinent to all human societies was who was in charge. Now it seems that no one is. To put it simply, economic,...
No speech or text can grasp everything; no book or any other medium can possibly capture complexity in its entirety. Say your topic is the humble pin – you can talk or write about physics and chemistry associated with the pin, the history of the pin, the consequences...
Not so long ago, mainstream psychology considered the mind a black box[1], but we all know from our own experience that this cannot be right. There is no doubt that the human mind (and possibly the minds of other species) has an active role in shaping, kneading, and...
We learn or receive through observing, experiencing, studying. But how reliable is all that? Many intellectual castles have been built on sand; we cannot take for given that there is a firm ground to start off from. This is not to say that nothing can be done about it...
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