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[c.o.christiansen @chrochr]

“Christiansen’s book is, for the students of development economics and international relations, and people like me who study world inequalities, enjoyable and very well documented.”

Very pleased with this positive review of my Designing Global Economic Equality by @BrankoMilan

[Volodia @volodia___]

Ha fallecido Alexander Rabinowitch, uno de los grandes historiadores de la revolución bolchevique.

[Steven N. Durlauf @sndurlauf]

Delighted that this conversation with Philip Kitcher, an intellectual hero, has posted.

The podcast focuses on two recent books.

The Rich & The Poor

represents a call to arms about the ways public policy and academia think about inequality and destitution. The book calls for a reinvigoration of both with ethical considerations in identifying questions and in conceptualizing policy objectives.

The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education

develops a rich vision of education as integral to what constitutes a good society, with deep implications for its organization. Kitcher follows John Dewey in focusing on education's role in forming "fundamental dispositions" of the citizenry.

While not the focus of our conversation, I highly recommend two other Kitcher books.

On John Stuart Mill

is based on Kitcher's lectures in the Columbia core and presents a pragmatic view of Mill and emphasizes Mill's profoundly humane vision of a good society.

The Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions

is a modern classic in the philosophy of science. The book develops a systemic analysis of how scientific progress can occur by emphasizing how scientific communities evolve. The book is important because of its (I would argue decisive) rebuttal of various challenges to the meaning and fact of scientific progress, challenges that may be found in various arguments in philosophy and sociology (the so-called Sociology of Scientific Knowledge). The book helped inspire my paper with William Brock

A Formal Model of Theory Choice in Science, Economic Theory, 1999.

[laudablePractice @cath_cov]

"Marsilius [of Padua, d.1342] is cited ... by partisans of both Reformation and Counter-Reformation as a Protestant avant la lettre. One sign of Marsilius' radical chic is that Henry VIII's vice-regent, Thomas Cromwell ... commissioned a translation of Marsilius' 'Defender 1/2

[Facundo Miranda @Facundo59204769]

Hoy querria recomendar esta antologia de logica en el cual varios autores renombrados del area tales como van Bethem, Barwise,Avron,Feferman,etc. Reflexionan sobre distintos aspectos y temas de los fundamentos de la logica.

[Jakabfi Károly (霸王最忠之臣子) @JakabfiK]

Can’t wait to dig into this one once I’m done with my current book.
Surprisingly compact for being over 400 pages. Which is nice. The foreword is hilarious.

[Saib Bilaval @SaibBilaval]

This bad boy is back in a 3rd, enlarged edition incl the Modi era!

THE INDIAN IDEOLOGY - PERRY ANDERSON

Today in Modi's India this classic book on the faultlines, limitations, realities of the freedom struggle & the Nehruvian idea of India in practice - has aged very well.

DM.

[Greg Collins @GregCollins111]

Just received a copy of my colleague extraordinaire Dan Schillinger’s
new book Luckless: The Idea of Luck in Ancient Greek Thought. “…[L]uck is better understood as a psychological phenomenon—nothing more and nothing less.” @OUPAcademic

[Ferenc Hörcher @HorcherF]

"Richard Tuck, John Pocock, John Dunn, Raymond Geuss, Gareth Stedman Jones, Michael Sonenscher, John Robertson, Keith Tribe, Pasquale Pasquino, and Peter N. Miller contribute original essays on themes Hont treated with penetrating insight: the politics of commerce, debt,& luxury"

[khalid yousef @khalidsyossef]

#NewPublication
The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams: Early Greek Hermeneutics and Its Sources
Mirjam E. Kotwick, Princeton Univ Pr, 2026
Front Matter, Introduction, PDF 🎯
https://t.co/EGQp5bohOz
https://t.co/34w0NRNkE8
https://t.co/Vpij11e6Hv

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

With all this talk of AI sovereignty I went upstairs and dusted off this bad boy.

[Polity @politybooks]

"Every passing day in today’s world reminds us that imperialism is constantly renewing itself (did you say rare earths? Greenland? cobalt? Congo?)."

Read Denis Cogneau's piece for our blog:
https://t.co/RiQi6CYuMV

[Didier 'Dirac's ghost' Gaulin @DiracGhost]

My adventures in linguistic continues, this time, with the classic 'The French Language: Present and Past' by Glanville Price.

Not the greatest cover I've seen, but its content is quite impressive, within regards to the ''internal'' evolution of the French language over time.

I've been told that this text goes well with A History of the French Language by Peter Rickard, which will be, most probably, my next reading in linguistic.

If you're French, and you've got a recommendation of your own (in French), lemme know!

[The Syllabus @syllabus_tweets]

Private equity firms (PE) have become architects of crisis across everyday life. Our book of the week demonstrates how PE's model of “creative destruction” is tearing down public goods and selling our social fabric.

By @hettieveronica on @HachetteBooks

https://t.co/nhtjKgbb8J

[Cambridge Economics @CambUP_Econ]

Take advantage of our conference offers for HES-ESHET Joint Conference 2026 until July 02. Apply code 106990 at checkout #HESESHET2026.
https://t.co/OshZTS67gZ

[Luka Lisjak @llisjak]

I was surprised to learn, while I was reviewing this book few years ago 👇, that Furet's interpretation of the French Revolution was very influential among "Eastern Bloc" dissidents, particularly in Hungary. Istán Rév's essay in this (👇) volume is illuminating in this regard.

[காயத்ரி ஐயர் @sgiyer1]

My book Agrarian Superpower: Food, Development, and the Global Ascendancy of the United States is now out in physical form! @ColumbiaUP offers a 20% discount with the code CUP20

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

Congratulations to Zophia Edwards @zyedwards, whose book "Fueling Development" has been named the winner of the American Sociological Association @ASAnews
Distinguished Scholarly Book Award. https://t.co/wV3UQfQoks https://t.co/OlMH8oBkXF

[Joshua Heavin @JoshuaHeavin]

My latest writing, in @MereOrthodoxy:

A review of Paul T. Sloan (@paulthomasloan)'s excellent @BakerAcademic book "Jesus and the Law of Moses: The Gospels and the Restoration of Israel within First-Century Judaism" https://t.co/A3Rxi8zI5h

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[Pierre Grosser @PierreGrosser]

C’est un bon gros pavé qui vient d’arriver 🥵