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The False Claims for Austerity
Paul Krugman
Why did the austerians get such a powerful grip on elite opinion in the first place?
Time Regained!
James Gleick
We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist. If time is like a river, are we standing on the bank watching, or are we bobbing along? It might be better merely to say that things happen, things change, and time is our name for the reference frame in which we organize our sense that one thing comes before another.
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