Cambridge University Eight Centurie... Oct 9, 2009
In philosophy, Wittgenstein worked at Cambridge and in the arts Byron and Tennyson were students and the Bloomsbury group originated at Cambridge. A History of The Diocese of Ely. (Suite101.com)
Off with their blinkered heads Oct 1, 2009
Thomas Freidman said recently in the New York Times "Let's today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of our economic crisis and ask a radical question: What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? What if it's telling us that the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years is simply unsustainable economically and ecologically and that 2008 was when we hit the wall - when Mother Nature and the market both said: 'No more'.It's... (Asia Times Online)
The Redemption of Keynes Sep 19, 2009
His literary career was deeply influenced by his membership in the Bloomsbury group, which included Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster. In 1923 he put the income from his writing to work in the markets, making and losing several fortunes. (BusinessWeek)
Bloomsbury letters go for 50,000 Sep 4, 2009
A collection of hundreds of previously unpublished letters written by members of the Bloomsbury Group has fetched 50,000 at an auction in East Sussex ... "It just goes to show that there remains an incredible fascination with the Bloomsbury Group.". (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Obama’s change falling short Mar 14, 2009
Keynes was a left wing wall flower and a member of the deranged Bloomsbury group of inter-World War British pacifists. He was an arrogant theorist who truly believed in the magical elixir of large government and in the technocratic dream of controlling billions of personal, business and economic decisions, to programmatically construct a perfect world order. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
