Varia
Today, one of my economics students kindly shared with me the response she received from a well-known AI chatbot to a question she had posed: The most influential heterodox Swedish economist today is undoubtedly Lars Pålsson Syll, a leading critic of mainstream neoclassical economics and a prominent voice in Post-Keynesian, institutionalist, and pluralist economic thought. Here’s why he […]
. I programmet Text och musik med Eric Schüldt — som sänds på söndagsförmiddagarna i P2 — kan man lyssna på seriös musik och en programledare som verkligen har något att säga och inte bara låter ljudrummet dränkas i den kommersiella radions tyckmyckentrutade ordbajseri och pubertalflams. Som så ofta de senaste åren är det den eminente […]
A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. When we perceive […]
Touring again. Guest appearances in Stockholm and Uppsala. Visiting our beautiful capital city, yours truly, of course, takes the opportunity to spend some time with my daughter who lives there. [Picture taken twenty-four years ago at our summer residence in the Karlskrona archipelago.]
I en tid när ljudrummet dränks i den kommersiella radions tyckmyckentrutade ordblaj och fullständigt intetsägande pubertalflamsande tjafs har många av oss mer eller mindre gett upp. Radion, som en gång i tiden var en källa till både vederkvickelse och reflexion har degenererat till en postmodern ytlighetsavgud. Men det finns ljus i mörkret! I programmet Text […]
. Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Neil Young, B. B. King, Mark Knopfler, Carlos Santana, … But greatest of them all — Jimi Hendrix.