Newsletter 338

[1]There Is No Such Thing As A Free Market
Links:
1. http://b.rw/iAcpZL

Ha-Joon Chang | Truthout | 7 June 2011

Book excerpt from Cambridge economist argues that there can be no such thing
as an objectively defined free market. "A market looks free only because we
so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see
them" [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/there-no-such-thing-free-market

[3]Man Is Not Cat Food
Links:
3. http://b.rw/lg5GWo

Barbara Ehrenreich | LA Review Of Books | 6 June 2011

We're more sensitive to animal rights, we have more respect for animal
powers of thought. But we shouldn't over-sentimentalise. Animals are
different from us. They're different from each other. And many of them are
enemies of man [4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/man-not-cat-food

[5]North Korea Defectors Take To The 'Underground Railroad'
Links:
5. http://b.rw/klNNO0

Patrick Winn | Global Post | 8 June 2011

For many North Korean defectors the path to freedom runs to Thailand, 3,000
miles from the hermit kingdom. Chinese checkpoints, spies, and informants
lie in wait along the way. Aiding defectors, an underground Christian
network [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/north-korea-defectors-take-underground-railroad

[7]Empty trash. Buy milk. Forge history
Links:
7. http://b.rw/jvnzvQ

Gal Beckerman | Boston Globe | 5 June 2011

Inventories of household goods carried out in Germany from 1600 to late
1800s show evolution of domestic technologies and consumption. Industrial
revolution was preceded by "industrious revolution" of improved living
standards [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/empty-trash-buy-milk-forge-history

[9]George Saunders Interview, Part 2
Links:
9. http://b.rw/j08dXF

Patrick Dacey | Bomblog | 6 June 2011

Author reflects on unpredictable, energising process of writing. After
describing a middle-aged man who has a mini-burst of happiness "my first
instinct would be to make an icicle come down and impale him through the
head" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/george-saunders-interview-part-2

[11]Sloshed
Links:
11. http://b.rw/kaQrL6

Matthew Latkiewicz | Grub Street | 8 June 2011

Forget judging a bottle of wine by its price. Look at the label instead. Can
be a far better guide to what you're going to get. Think about it: If they
didn't put moose in sunglasses on the label how would you know to avoid it?
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sloshed

FiveBooks Interview

[13]Hassan Abbas on Reform in Pakistan
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/hassan-abbas-on-reform-pakistan

The academic and former government official suggests what Pakistan’s
security services should be reading if they’re to grasp the dynamics of
extremism, but says there’s more to his country’s problems than terrorism