How People Think about the Economy
With my pre-retirement, this blog is changing topics. From now on, my intention is to understand the world better. I have a reading plan prepared, and I will be posting summaries of what I am learning. We start with economics and evolutionary psychology. We normally assume that the concepts of eco
Local knowledge and the tree of science
Here are three stories that need to be analysed together: When I was living in El Salvador, in the nineties, a colleague had a motorbike accident. He had deep abrasions on his shoulder. Being a man from the countryside and with a good knowledge of plants, he applied infusions of chichipince, a local
Byzantine discussions on the decolonisation of development cooperation
Taking advantage of the time while I work in the garden, I have been listening to the podcast Living Decoloniality to improve my training in what seems to be the fashionable topic. It is a very well done and interesting podcast; however, I didn’t find anything that wasn’t already being