https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/ 2026-06-06T13:42:28+00:00 https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/ https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=a_century_of_war&rev=1573209582&do=diff William Engdahl, 2004 (revised edition), A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, London: Pluto 1. The Three Pillars of the British Empire The period in question began with the 1814-15 Congress of Vienna, during which Continental Europe was shuffled around in the wake of Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo. The Congress divided Europe sufficiently to prevent a significant threat to British power, whilst giving Britain text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=alternative_adjustment_programmes&rev=1573209582&do=diff Alternative Adjustment Programmes Based on Ch 8.5 of Robert Lensink, 1996, Structural Adjustment in SSA, New York: Longman The alternative adjustment programmes presented in the 1980s and early 1990s can be considered derivatives of the structuralist position. They have much in common with it and each other, although in general they reject the former emphasis that structuralism placed on industrialisation at the expense of the agricultural sector. text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=broken_nis&rev=1573209582&do=diff The New Industrial State, John Kenneth Galbraith, 1972 (2nd ed), Harmondsworth: Penguin Part I: The History and Nature of the New Industrial State Change and the Industrial System Change in the economic sphere has been very great in recent history. It is a curiosity that although this is accepted, what has changed is perceived to be strictly limited. For instance, the essential features of American capitalism remain perfect throughout. text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=dumbing_us_down&rev=1573209582&do=diff “Dumbing Us Down: the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, John Taylor Gatto, 2005 (first ed. 1992), New Society Publishers, ISBN 978-0-86571-448-9 Dumbing Us Down is a collection of five essays, often themselves based on lectures. The essays weren't written with a cohesive objective in mind, and as a result individual essays will tackle a point very concisely, but often repeat a statement that is made elsewhere. A better abridgement might restructure the entire work so as to avoid thi… text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=fair_trade_for_all&rev=1573209582&do=diff Joseph Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton, 2005, Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development, Oxford: Oxford University Press Introduction Recent WTO History The Uruguay Round completed in 1994, establishing the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and drastically expanding the scope of multilateral law concerning global trading rules. In the decade since its completion, consensus has emerged that the round heavily favoured developed countries and many developing countries have suffered unexpe… text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=home&rev=1573209582&do=diff Abridgements Title Author The Elusive Quest for Growth William Easterly The White Man's Burden William Easterly A Century of War text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=house_style&rev=1573209582&do=diff Some excellent general notes on the DokuWiki system have been provided by its authors, as well as specific pages on images and the media manager (used to upload binary files). Any further notes on the stylised way in which Abridge Me should be laid out can be added here: * Quotations from the original text are entered as explained in the text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=macroeconomics_and_the_phillips_curve_myth&rev=1573209582&do=diff Macroeconomics and the Phillips Curve Myth by James Forder, 2014, Oxford: Oxford University Press A 4-page review of the book (pdf) by Kevin Hoover for the Balliol Annual Record covers its main arguments succinctly. Note: if you have access to the full version, each chapter is summarised well in its own concluding section, so a good overview of the book can be obtained by reading the introduction and then successive conclusions in turn. text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=pedagogy_of_the_oppressed&rev=1573209582&do=diff Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, 1968 (first translated into English in 1970 by Myra Ramos) Translated from La Iniciativa de Comunicación: click here for the Spanish version. I. " The justification for a pedagogy of the oppressed. The dichotomy of oppressors and oppressed - and how to move beyond it. The concrete reality of oppression and the oppressed. text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=playground&rev=1573209582&do=diff testing code background text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=postcapitalism&rev=1573209582&do=diff PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason, 2015, London: Allen Lane Introduction In short, the argument of this book is " that capitalism is a complex, adaptive system which has reached the limits of its capacity to adapt." According to the OECD, growth in the developed world will be 'weak' for the next fifty years. By 2060, the growth currently enjoyed by developing countries will have petered out, and they will have converged with the stagnation of rich countries. Capitalism (… text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=the_affluent_society&rev=1573209582&do=diff The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith, 1969 (2nd ed) The Affluent Society The world is a newly affluent place. Economic growth has brought enormous changes to the ways in which the populations of the Western world live. Such change ought to be accompanied by a broad revolution in ideas associated with the management of a national economy and society. Running a rich country is entirely different to running an economy that is struggling to survive; and yet so many of the ancient ideas … text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=the_anatomy_of_power&rev=1573209582&do=diff The Anatomy of Power, John Kenneth Galbraith, 1983, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Overview Here we set out a framework in which power will be analysed in this book. The meaning of the word 'power' is widely and straightforwardly understood; in Weber's words, power is “the possibility of imposing one's will upon the behaviour of other persons. text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=the_elusive_quest_for_growth&rev=1573209582&do=diff The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly, 2001, Cambridge: MIT Press Panaceas that Failed Download epub version (This is still a beta feature -- the epub version may be out of date, ugly, or just not work at all. Sorry!) Aid for Investment: the Harrod-Domar Model text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=the_nature_of_mass_poverty&rev=1573209582&do=diff The Nature of Mass Poverty, John Kenneth Galbraith, 1979, Cambridge: Harvard University Press " An end to injustice, to remind, is not necessarily or even usually an end to poverty. ---page 133" How Poverty Is Now Explained Current explanations of the reasons and sources of mass, rural poverty are highly unsatisfactory, and rarely subjected to serious critical analysis. A summary: text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=the_new_industrial_state&rev=1573209582&do=diff The New Industrial State, John Kenneth Galbraith, 1972 (2nd ed), Harmondsworth: Penguin Part I: The History and Nature of the New Industrial State Change and the Industrial System Change in the economic sphere has been very great in recent history. It is a curiosity that although this is accepted, what has changed is perceived to be strictly limited. For instance, the essential features of American capitalism remain perfect throughout. text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=the_new_industrial_state_part_i&rev=1573209582&do=diff The New Industrial State, John Kenneth Galbraith, 1972 (2nd ed), Harmondsworth: Penguin Part I: The History and Nature of the New Industrial State Change and the Industrial System Change in the economic sphere has been very great in recent history. It is a curiosity that although this is accepted, what has changed is perceived to be strictly limited. For instance, the essential features of American capitalism remain perfect throughout. text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=the_new_industrial_state_part_ib&rev=1573209582&do=diff The Management of Specific Demand The industrial system relies on its control of prices in the markets in which it operates to make long-term planning possible, by guaranteeing an acceptable level of revenue. But clearly, the volume of products each corporation is able to sell at its fixed price is equally important to the security of this revenue. It would be inconsistent of corporations to invest effort in securing stable prices and do nothing to manage consumer demand. text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=the_new_industrial_state_part_ii&rev=1573209582&do=diff Part II: The Future of the New Industrial State " " There are difficulties in talking, at the same time, about what will happen and what should happen. Marx must on occasion have wondered, if revolution were inevitable, as he proclaimed, why it required the passionate and unrelenting advocacy which he accorded it. Should baleful tendencies be predicted when one hopes that popular understanding will bring the reaction that reverses them? text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=the_partys_over&rev=1573209582&do=diff The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg, 2005 (2nd ed). Sussex: Clairview An alternative synopsis is provided by the Post Carbon Institute on their website. Energy, Nature and Society Ecology is the study of the way in which species interact with their environments and other species. Humans conform neatly to standard ecological patterns; it is therefore possible to view social sciences in a sense as a subset of ecology, and to examine human society… text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=the_return_of_depression_economics&rev=1573209582&do=diff The Return of Depression Economics by Paul Krugman, 1999. London: Penguin July 1, 1997 By July 1997, twenty years of events had placed capitalism in a uniquely triumphant position in its history: starting with Chinese reforms in 1978, feeding off the Soviet collapse and buoyed by the seeming triumph of the emerging SE Asian economies. Self-congratulation at the flawless management of capitalist economies had returned text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=the_roaring_nineties&rev=1573209582&do=diff The Roaring Nineties, Joseph Stiglitz, 2003, London: Penguin " If wars, as Clemenceau famously said, are too important to be left to generals, economic development and global economic stability are too important to be left to the finance ministers and central bankers of the advanced industrial countries, and the international institutions they oversee, the World Bank and the text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=the_white_mans_burden&rev=1573209582&do=diff The White Man's Burden by William Easterly, 2006, Oxford: Oxford University Press Planners Versus Searchers " Take up the White Man's burden--- In patience to abide, To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain, text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=who_runs_this_place&rev=1573209582&do=diff Who Runs This Place?: The Anatomy of Britain in the 21st Century by Anthony Sampson, 2005, London: John Murray The London Guardian published a 4,500 word extract of this book in 2004. The following “Veracity Index” published by MORI is often referred to: Profession text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=who_runs_this_place_automatic&rev=1573209582&do=diff Who Runs This Place? Anthony Sampson 2005, London: John Murray 06/07/2007 01:06:53--12/02/2011 17:34:52 1 The House of Commons 1 2 The House of Lords 2 3 Monarchy 2 4 Political Parties 3 5 Trades Unions 3 6 The Prime Minister 3 7 The Cabinet 4 text/html 2019-11-08T10:39:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://abridgeme.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=who_runs_this_place_by_hand&rev=1573209582&do=diff Who Runs This Place?: The Anatomy of Britain in the 21st Century by Anthony Sampson, 2005, London: John Murray The following “Veracity Index” published by MORI is often referred to: Profession 1983 (per cent) 2003 (per cent) Doctors 82 91 Teachers