Daily Review 10/02/2017

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1. greywarshark 1

   10 February 2017 at 6:29 pm

   I was impressed by Matt Nippert NZ Herald journalist – investigative reporter? recently and also another journalist being interviewed by Kim Hill tomorrow – should be interesting and people to be recommended.

   Kim Hill
   What’s coming up tomorrow after 9 a.m.
   Two New Zealand journalists doing great things first up on tomorrow’s show – the New Zealand Herald’s Matt Nippert discusses how he discovered US billionaire Peter Thiel was a New Zealand citizen,….
   and Emma Beals tells Kim about being awarded the James Foley Freedom award for her work in helping keep war correspondents safe.
   • Carolyn_nth 1.1

     10 February 2017 at 7:55 pm

     I have met and talked to Nippert. He’s kind like you might expect an investigative journo to be. A bit scruffy and a bit of a character. Definitely has a mind of his own. And smart.

     His articles, and David Fisher and Simon Collins’ ones are why I don’t totally dismiss the NZ Herald. But their articles tend not to be given the tabloidish space at the top of the home page.
   • weka 1.2

     10 February 2017 at 8:00 pm

     Grey, do you still want me to put up a post on Sunday introducing the bookclub and the Schumacher book? I will need the copy tonight or in the morning if I am to get it ready for Sunday.
     • greywarshark 1.2.1

       11 February 2017 at 12:42 pm

       Hi weka
       I fogot to use reply button and wrote below. Advice from you?
2. greywarshark 2

   11 February 2017 at 12:01 pm

   This was a good idea – let’s all read the same book and have a discussion of our thoughts about it and see if we can find some viable good ideas in this election year! So action is following and the first idea is to read E F Schumacher’s 1973 book, Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. You are all invited to come on the journey and report back on the high points of your travel. Debrief in say a month.

   Why do this? The shared information we get on TS is interesting and gets discussion going and those informed people that share here are soon shown to be gold when we read the rest, the bumf and misinformation that flows around. And further. what is special is the links that are provided so we can background the opinions and quotes that others put up.

   We want to join in this exploration of the thinking of well-known academics producing work that is likely to be beneficial to us all. and the thinking of mature identities bringing their education, skills and experiences to us.

   Hi Weka
   I wondered if this above would be satisfactory for intro to the post. I have been sidetracked by events and only got this far. Suggestions? Put this up for this Sunday saying start next? Myself prepare more and have it ready for later? Sorry, rather awkward things going on here and I haven’t got onto it early enough.
   • weka 2.1

     11 February 2017 at 1:06 pm

     Good start for the intro grey. I’d like to have a tinker with it (for clarity), and I’m not sure about the negative framing re bumf, but will have another read through later on and come back to you.

     I’m thinking there is the first post with the book named in it, and then a month later we have the discussion post. I would need all the other bits for the first post to go up tomorrow. However if we don’t make the deadline for tomorrow, we can just start the first post next week 🙂
     • greywarshark 2.1.1

       11 February 2017 at 2:36 pm

       Will keep going while I’m having lunch, as far as I am able and report back for next step I think. Being short on the technicalities of on line means that I haven’t a clear picture of what to do. Will make changes this year but concentrating on doing things and how to do them as I go.
       • weka 2.1.1.1

         11 February 2017 at 2:57 pm

         Here’s the list from before. You don’t have to format any of that, I’ll do it when I put up the post. Apart from the intro, which you’ve already done, the rest is basically a list of links. Just cut and paste from the address bar of the page you are wanting.

         Content
         intro to the whole idea, keep it succinct, maybe 3 paragraphs?
         naming and a brief intro to the first book

         Links to who Schumacher is (note spelling)
         wikipedia
         Guardian review

         Info and links on how to get book:
         Your ideas
         Te Puna search for interloans/which libraries have the book (I’ll get those if you can’t find them)
         Amazon link for ebook and cheap 2nd hand
         Other option links?

         Other links?

         Front page photo (book cover, or photo of Schumacher perhaps?)
         Front page blurb

         I will need all that in a single document, ordinary text. If any of the content is a direct quote, please put it in ” ” and put a link at the end of the sentence/paragraph for where it was taken from.
         • greywarshark 2.1.1.1.1

           11 February 2017 at 10:11 pm

           weka
           It’s taken me a while to go through it all, learning things as I go which takes time.
           I couldn’t find where it says how long it takes to read the book. I hope that the other info is right. Looks as if I might have to write and explain that it is going in next week – that we have got it together enough to get started but the full info will go in next Sunday 19th?

           Here’s what I’ve got.

           TS 11 February 2017 greywarshark
           1st Reading Book

           Intro

           E F Schumacher
           Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if people mattered.

           E F Schumacher, a German economist who in the 1930’s was a Rhodes Scholar in Britain, escaped the Nazis taking his expertise to Britain where he and his family were interned and he worked as a farm labourer. From his experience and wisdom and the aftermath of WW2 and concern for the future, he wrote a book relating to Britain and the world. This book Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, published in 1973, was a series of essays on a better economic way for the future. His book and theories should have been a counter to Friedrich von Hayek’s which became so influential in forming neo liberal economics.
           http://www.voltairenet.org/article30058.html (on Hayek).

           Image – Photo of Schumaker from 1973 Small if Beautful book:
           https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/SchumacherSiB200.jpg

           Cover of book and description: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/91/SmallIsBeautiful1973.jpg/220px-SmallIsBeautiful1973.jpg

           https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher
           https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful

           https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/nov/14/small-is-beautiful-ef-schumacher
           https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/mar/27/schumacher-david-cameron-small-beautiful
           Audio interview 1976 about the Small is Beautiful book.
           https://archive.org/details/Ef.SchumacherSmallIsBeautifulPressConferenceUcDavis1976

           How to obtain actual book in NZ:
           Library – may have to enquire if in storage, or get interloan at a cost.
           Second-hand or new bookshop, but may have to order.

           TradeMe listings – it appears that only Hamilton store supplies from NZ.
           If quick to pay may get within 7 days, price about $18 free shipping.

           On your computer as pdf –
           http://www.colinalexander.info/files/pdfs/Schumacher.pdf
           Also: http://www.ditext.com/schumacher/small/2.html

           Goodread has list of on-line stores: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1117634.Small_Is_Beautiful
           Need Kindle.

           Amazon Kindle https://www.amazon.com/Small-Beautiful-Economics-People-Mattered-ebook/dp/B004ZLS5TI $10.26 US?

           Google E-Book $13.38 US?
           https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/Small_Is_Beautiful.html?id=IKo3ALhVFKcC&redir_esc=y

           Also interesting.
           Book of essays – A Pair of Cranks with Leopold Kohr (another Nazi escapee and sympathetic economist)
           https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=20848547896

           From an article in the publication The Ghandi Foundation:
           Who was Fritz Schumacher? by Diana Schumacher.
           Diana in article refers to EF Schumacher having solar power set up at his home about the 70s.

           A quote from ‘Fritz’ Schumacher:
           “As Fritz Schumacher said in Good Work:
           “I certainly never feel discouraged. I can’t myself raise the winds which might blow us, or this ship, into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail, so that when the wind comes I can catch it.”’
           • weka 2.1.1.1.1.1

             11 February 2017 at 11:35 pm

             Thanks Grey. I’ve started on the draft post for next Sunday (will need to make some edits), and have also dropped a note in the back end to run it past the other authors.

             No harm in letting people know it’s happening next week, but I’d suggest not getting into it too much. I think it’s better to wait for the post as an official announcement and with all the detail in one place. I think we will generate more energy that way.
           • Carolyn_nth 2.1.1.1.1.2

             12 February 2017 at 7:04 am

             Index NZ (National Library of NZ website), gives information about where a book is held in libraries throughout NZ.

             http://natlib-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=NLNZ&tab=innz

             For this book, I had to do an advance search on “Small is beautiful” as title and the author name in the next box:

             Small is Beautiful

             Click on the “Details” tab underneath the book info, To the right there is a box with a link “Find this item in New Zealand Libraries”

             There’s a few public libraries around NZ that hold it.

             As we say in the bizniz: ask a librarian
3. greywarshark 3

   12 February 2017 at 10:22 am

   carolyn-nth
   Thanks, I find that they are very helpful.
   • Carolyn_nth 3.1

     12 February 2017 at 5:33 pm

     Cheers, grey.

     The book discussion section sounds like a very good idea.

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