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Updating common knowledge
Have you ever wondered how the results of scientific research get written up, published, disseminated and, in some cases, eventually accepted as conventional wisdom? How do those obscure academic articles in hard-to-remember journals contribute to our everyday understanding of the world around us? Are you perplexed over how science says one thing today only to […]
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Just ourselves
In his 1993 book Pleasant the Scholar’s Life: Irish Intellectuals and the Construction of the Nation State, Maurice Goldring emphasised the role of intellectuals in shaping Irish cultural nationalism. He distinguished between revolts and revolutions. Without some articulation of ideas that might drive change a revolt could never become a revolution: ‘Gavroche, in Les Misérables, […]
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Capitalism’s misunderstood architects
John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek published their landmark works over 75 years ago, so why do their ideas still generate such debate today? Kritika & Kontext devotes a special issue to a re-evaluation of these two 20th-century behemoths in economic thought – one a staunch advocate of government intervention in markets, the other […]
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