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Mon, 06/02/2023 - 21:48
The mainstream textbook concept of money multiplier assumes that banks automatically expand the credit money supply to a multiple of their aggregate reserves.  If the required currency-deposit reserve ratio is 5%, the money supply should be about twenty times larger than the aggregate reserves of banks.  In this way, the money multiplier concept assumes that […]
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Mon, 06/02/2023 - 21:00
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… SEP New: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi by Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich. Revised: Instrumental Rationality by Niko Kolodny and John Brunero. Computing and Moral Responsibility by Merel Noorman. Mental Causation by David Robb, John Heil, and Sophie Gibb. Justice and Bad Luck by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen. Plato’s Ethics: An Overview by Dorothea Frede and Mi-Kyoung Lee. Neutral Monism by Leopold Stubenberg and Donovan Wishon. Set Theory by Joan Bagaria. The Philosophy of Childhood by Gareth Matthews and Amy Mullin. Cognitive Science by Paul Thagard. IEP     ∅ NDPR     Johann Friedrich Herbart: The Grandfather of Analytic Philosophy by Frederick C. Beiser is reviewed by David Sullivan. The Notions of George Berkeley: Self, Substance, Unity and Power by James Hill is reviewed by Genevieve Migely. A Plea for Natural Philosophy: And Other Essays by Penelope Maddy is reviewed by Gary Hatfield. Lire le Matérialisme by Charles T. Wolfe is reviewed by Ruth Edith Hagengruber.
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Mon, 06/02/2023 - 17:29

Bennett says the US and its Western allies decided to ‘keep striking Putin’ and not negotiate This article was originally published by Antiwar.com Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in an interview posted to his YouTube channel on Saturday that the US and its Western allies “blocked” his efforts of mediating between Russia and Ukraine to bring an end to the war in its early days. On March 5, 2022, Bennett traveled to Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin. In […]

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Mon, 06/02/2023 - 14:30
Geopolitics, the global economy, and the future. Longish but important. 

Brave New World
Jeffrey D. Sachs – The New Geopolitics
Jeffrey D. Sachs | University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed The Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is also president of the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network and a commissioner of the U.N. Broadband Commission for Development. He has been adviser to three United Nations secretaries-general and currently serves as an SDG advocate under Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.