Economics, Literature and Scepticism

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I am a PhD student in Economics. I am originally from South Africa and plan to return there after my PhD. I completed my M. Comm in Economics and my MA In Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of Cape Town, where I worked as a lecturer before starting my PhD.

Sunday, October 23, 2005

I was SOOO busy last night

Posted by Simon Halliday | Sunday, October 23, 2005 | Category: | 0 comments
A tapestry of shoes 23.10.05 The structure of completion is a frayed collection of threads and it is the frays where severances hurt and where they retie newborn offshoots of hemp, roughed off of their own accord but tied tighter than old shoelaces burnt with selotape and holding together rubber and the soul - i am molded to you in this old shoe way scared of discard or tempted by it Polemic 23.10.05 it...

Saturday, October 22, 2005

The Philosophy of Economic Policy Making (or 'Work Avoidance on a Saturday Afternoon)

Posted by Simon Halliday | Saturday, October 22, 2005 | Category: | 0 comments
Subsequent to having studied a course in Policy Analysis in my Honours year of Economics and now having completed a development style course in Masters, something has become horribly apparent to me. This problem is that people pre-judge the discipline of Economics because of its idealism. Not only is this 'sin' committed by policy-makers external to Economics and by politicians attempting to derogate the discipline, but also members within the discipline itself. ...

Personal Prevarications

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On the noted need to write more... Here are some more for your personal delictations. The Journey of Jonah 29.08.05 I see these odd water creatures flowing about me, this place where I should be not. This containment seems inescapable, damaging me, my claustrophobia tightening in. But muscles move about me, thrusting me away from these acids and half-rotten bodies; and yet this place is familiar clearer, but as filled with a foreign...
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