John Cleese – the Open Mode – Creativity
Mike Wallace interviews Ayn Rand 1959
Hollowing Out the Middle
Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives
Hammurabi’s Code – Nassim Taleb
Satyajit Das – the Law of Conservation of Risk
If you are a student of the empirical science of value – Satyajit Das clearly and coherently breaks down risk, money, and the financialization of global capitalism.
More from Satyajit Das discussing his previous project Traders Guns & Money: knowns and Unknowns in the World of Derivatives at Planet Money. While you are there, check out all the Planet Money Deep Reads Podcasts.
Are We Worshipping the Wrong God – Sir James Goldsmith
Sir James Goldsmith the basis for Oliver Stone’s Sir Laurence Wildman character in Wallstreet breaks down value, wages, economy, trade imbalance, and globalization. Almost 20 years ago and before his death in 1997 Goldsmith explains where America’s (and the worlds) political economy was taking us.
It Felt Like a Kiss – from Archive.org
Adam Curtis’ Blog on BBC is almost worth the £145.50 UK TV License Tax (paid to BBC). Although it’s not broadcasted live so I am still not paying.
It Felt Like a Kiss is treatise on American Power – now available outside the UK through an Archive.org stream.