A New Yorker article argues that economists should read Tolstoy, who understood that we can’t strip morality and politics out of the discipline.
Tag Archives: Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy, Must Reading for Economists
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The Dangerous Power of Libraries
Libraries as described by poet Paul Engle are sometimes repositories of dynamite, sometimes of comfort.
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Fani Willis’s Big Baggy Monster
The Georgia Trump indictment is like a “big baggy monster” whereas Jack Smith’s narrower indictment is like a Flaubert novel.
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Ukraine: What Would Leo and Fyodor Do?
Dostoevsky and Tolstoy’s novels work as indictments of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Anna Karenina, Brothers Karamazov, Child Abuse, Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hadji Murat, Resurrection, Russian Invasion of Ukraine, sadism, Vladimir Putin, War and Peace Comments closed
The Very Model of a Modern Russian General
Tweeters have been busy finding literary allusions to capture the incompetence of Russia’s armed forces in Ukraine.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Gilbert and Sullivan, Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde, Pirates of Penzance, Ukraine invasion, War and Peace, William S. Gilbert Comments closed
Reading Poetry as Religious Experience
There is a spiritual dimension to reading literature that is worth exploring.
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