It's only the second day of Evoke, and already my colleagues have ten, two dozen, or even more blog posts. I know it's not a race, but it's hard to feel like I'm pulling my weight. And yet, a busy life with a full-time job and all the usual chores has made it hard to give Evoke as much time as I think it deserves.
And hey, I have it
easy in the larger scheme of things: I have my evenings to myself. Some of you have spouses, kids, dogs, or all of…
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Posted on March 5, 2010 at 3:33am — 23 Comments
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Thank you for your feedback; your posts have been wonderful to read as well! I'm definitely sharing your concerns about how to keep up with the tremendous flow of ideas that EVOKE has spurred -- between cla**** and homework, it hasn't been particularly easy for me either, but I'm going to give it my best shot. As you said, small steps, but eloquent ones!
Nuclear deterrence strategy was my undergraduate thesis, so I spent a solid year constrasting it to other, more modern strategies like non-proliferation and preemption. Enlightenment-era economics is way back when the field was born, when philosophers like Mill and Hume looked at economics as one more way of seeking The Good in society. I suspect you would like it. Adam Smith was part of that crowd, but very few people remember him for anything besides the invisible hand.
Philosophy in general is quite a heavy topic, and we should probably divert the subject into direct emails. (Don't want to get too off-track on the Evoke servers, after all.) I'm going to be very busy this weekend, but I'll ping you next week and we can exchange email addresses. Looking forward to it. :)