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Sun 27 Nov 2011 22:58

@Melvin_Udall_ @OccupyOregon – I did you’re just too thick to understand. Anyone who confuses ethics with legality is beyond help alas

Sun 27 Nov 2011 21:54

@Melvin_Udall_ @OccupyOregon – yeah so did notorious criminals like Gandhi & MLK. Stalin and Saddam tho acted mostly quite legally

Sun 27 Nov 2011 21:46

@Melvin_Udall_ – to the contrary, it shows we actually think about ethics rather than regurgitating incoherent legalistic platitudes

Sat 26 Nov 2011 07:18

@kimmkhaira – ah gotcha; whereas I’m trying to turn around the meaning of “Medieval” by noting that Medieval Europe was mostly an exception

Sat 26 Nov 2011 05:40

@julesevans77 – okay fine I won’t mention on twitter if something goes well for me, wouldn’t want to seem to be bragging

Fri 25 Nov 2011 19:47

@OccupyJacksonMS – oh come on we’re all leaders here, and by the same token, all followers

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Fri 25 Nov 2011 17:50

@kimmkhaira – in my book the Medieval period across Eurasia was largely a Golden Age – it came to Europe late, but Europe was a backwater

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Thu 24 Nov 2011 04:31

@AlcibiadesSlim – and that’s the best compliment you can make. Thanks. I do think our conversations have been terribly restricted till now

Wed 23 Nov 2011 17:13

@milanoics – yes my favorite is they make me the (vertical) “leader” who organized people horizontally! Talk about unclear on the concept

Wed 23 Nov 2011 06:07

@Anthropology_MN – yes, contact Paul Oliver <paul@mhpbooks.com> – he’s the academic sales guy at Melville House

Mon 21 Nov 2011 21:46

@jeremy6d – thanks for saying! I tried to be fair and note real historical instances of market populism, as in China and Medieval Islam

Mon 21 Nov 2011 06:00

@bilibutterfield @TheOughtSpot – Nancy Scheper Hughes is also very good on this sort of issue

Sun 20 Nov 2011 02:59

@ronalorimer – oh Rona! Great to hear from you. No! I’m in Montreal en route to New York. Yourself?

Sat 19 Nov 2011 06:22

@joepdx – Marxists will always say that if you write about circulation. But it’s a book about debt! How can it not be?