Beren's Blog

I’ve read Massie’s other book on Peter the Great and thought it was good, so I decided to check this one out as well. [Read More]

These are just some additional things I noted which don’t fit into the main review: [Read More]

So, while procrastinating I read an article about the supposed ‘neomercantilism’ that china is using and other south east asian countries such as South Korea used to industrialise. This sent me into a massive spiral of researching the ‘mercantilism debate’ which eventually culminated in me deciding to read Friedrich List’s... [Read More]

This was a a very sad book. The dreams and optimism of the post-apollo 1970s have collapsed completely. O’Neill was confidently predicting a significant space industry and lunar base by 2010 “at the latest” and of course that never happened. Our progress in space has largely stalled since the 1970s... [Read More]

tl;dr: it’s good. [Read More]