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Colin Danby

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Heterodox economist working in history of thought, specifically the commerce between body, nation, race, and economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him. https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/colindanby/home Photo by Stephanie Seguino

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · Jan 30

My "Race in Marshall's Economics" is now available, and open-access!

Thanks to editors and reviewers at _Modern Intellectual History_, and to folks at Cambridge University Press who have been coping with cyberattack aftermath. #EconSky #OpenAccess

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Race in Marshall's Economics | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

Race in Marshall's Economics

www.cambridge.org

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 4h

IOW it's only a puzzle if you assume gov'ts with a single unified national interest in mind.

Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 4h

You can argue that these binge-purge cycles are useful to some people: they keep the poor down, and some people get really rich from them, as is happening right now with the people snaffling up those dollars.

Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 5h

Not many people could pull off this.

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 7h

Ashamed of my tatty paperbacks.

Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 8h

When it was little, my campus was like a startup. You could try stuff. And people don't realize how much we respond to student demand. Gender, race, sexuality? Lots of students sign up for it.

Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 8h

Oh good I was worried. Happy Birthday to a sweet dog!

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 8h

The ocean has the best organisms.

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 9h

I love the weight, the materiality of the halo in Byzantine painting. The wispy halos in later painting never seem quite right.

Paolo Veneziano, 1354, Madonna with Child

Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 9h

Theme park academia!

Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 9h

I'd never thought about the history of halos. In painting I suppose it has the advantage of making a head stand out from the background. But then if it's obligatory, you get this.

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Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 10h

Coming soon to a bookstore near you :-)

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 10h

Perhaps the Moomintroll books are philosophical allegory.

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Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social · 2d

Today is the official publication day for CRACKED FOUNDATIONS!! 🏠🥳🎉
For the next month, Penn is offering a discount of 40% off using the code UHA25. Which brings the price down to $20.97. A screaming deal!
www.pennpress.org/978151282822...

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d

The people showing up to explain trolley problems...

Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d

Tabs are an archive.

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d

We need *more* distinctions!

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed on a per capita basis, China is still just *below* the world average, and about a quarter of the UK level.

One can quibble about the data, but China still has enormous room to grow!

data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY...

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d

Another thing you find at the turn of the (20th) century is these writeups in which people presume to assess Jewish culture from outside, to award marks as it were.

Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d

It's striking when you read responses to Jewish immigration to East London around the turn of the century you find the same tropes: horrified reports that there are whole *streets* with shop signs in Yiddish.

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. I'd put it more strongly that neighborhoods where you can get along in another language are good things, and you want people to be able to bring over parents who don't have English. Families and communities are good. Get kids educated and they'll find their own opportunities.

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d

The "dysfunctional society" and "inferior culture" culture arguments were developed to stigmatize the Irish -- see e.g. Hume or Macaulay's histories of England.

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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 1d

1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.

Thread below ⬇️

Hegel and Colonialism

Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism

www.cambridge.org

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d

It's striking, 18th and 19th century, how closely the idea of one's own freedom is tied to ruling others. Which I suppose is rather Hegelian: how do I know I am free, because these people aren't.

There's also the household as an internal micro-colony.

Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d

Last time we stayed at Woodlands in Chennai, which was less than a decade ago, they were asking for payment every two or three days.

Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d

She could be right.

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