This is my first try to get to know myself and my ideas based on what I know so far about politics, psychology, sociology, history, public policy and society. I have a BA in Political Science and an MA in Political Science from Central European University.
In this episode, I am exploring the various types of family types, from the exogamous community to the authoritarian and the egalitarian nuclear family. Even though the research of Emmanuel Todd, the main researcher behind this, was done a long time ago and seems outdated today, these old fashioned types are largely still relevant today and it seems family types influence political ideologies too.
In this episode, I am exploring a few stats on inequality in selected countries from the 1980s to the late 2000s.
In this podcast, I survey some tables I found on the quality mix of occupations in selected countries like Germany, Sweden or the USA in the three decades between 1960s and 1980s
In this episode, I am exploring a few data points from the past, mainly the 1980s, regarding the pensions, the industrial growth and a comparison between corporatism, etatism and private pensions in several advanced economies of the world Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Adrian-Fanaca-104495404719783 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-fanaca-ma-polsci-mba-ab44172b/
In this episode, I am exploring what is Fisher effect, what happened to world trade since the 1970s, but first, we crack some jokes Please wrote to me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Adrian-Fanaca-104495404719783 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-fanaca-ma-polsci-mba-ab44172b/
In this video, I am exploring a few ideas from an economics and a social sciences book from which I get the CIO cartoon from the 1940 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Adrian-Fanaca-104495404719783 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-fanaca-ma-polsci-mba-ab44172b/
In this podcast, I am exploring a few ideas from economics, and then laugh a little at how labor was communicating to the workers
In this episode, I am sharing 13 things that changed since I have started drinking, 8 of those being an update since year 1 milestone Please share it, like, comment, subscribe, click the bell for receiving all my newest episodes Enjoy!
In this episode, I am exploring the microeconomics concept of income and substitution effects, plus the effect of the interest rates on savings rate
In this episode, I am exploring a few economics concepts of what happens when your budget increases or price decreases, as well as explaining what is an indifference curve and why it is bended and not a straight line
In this episode, I am exploring some ways of looking at work, its misery and possible disappearance, then I move to some Freudian principles of repression and compulsion and their stages, to finish with some statistics about poverty rates in Europe
In this episode, I am exploring some categorization of firms in capitalism, how capitalism changed in the last decade and how it functions, all in under 5 minutes and based on some economics textbook figures I am interpreting
In this episode, I am talking about the urban middle class, the urban working class and the rural working classes in Germany of 1925, few years before Hitler came to power
In this episode, I am exploring a range of topics which culminate with my number 1 finding, that Sweden is the country in the West that has still the highest class voting
In this episode I am exploring how the different classes in the West voted for socialist or communist parties YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TThFP0W3J70
In this video, I am exploring few aspects of who voted for which party in the 1950 in several countries, with close focus on social democratic and communist parties
In this episode, I am exploring some statistics in comparing stable democracies of Europe and the Anglo-Saxon world with less democratic states in Europe and Latin America. The focus is on education, communication media, industrialization and urbanization. There are some surprising facts
In this episode, I am exploring some economics concepts around monopoly and I am giving the example of Microsoft, which continues to have a monopoly on operating system, largely kept via bribing organizations Corruption scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_licensing_corruption_scandal
In this video, I am describing and discussing some figures and tables from some book on democratic transition of ex-communist countries
In this video, I am exploring few ideas found in some tables and figures regarding the Eastern European transition: on how did Czechoslovakian democracy function, some speeches of Gorbachev in which he rejected pluralism and how Baltic people view the themselves and the system in the transition period
In this episode, I am exploring what Spanish, and Latin American population relate to democracy having in mind their histories of military dictatorship. I am using tables and figures from prominent political scientist's research. Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan were the prominent political scientists in terms of democratic transition in the recent past
In this book, I am exploring several quotations that I found interesting in Emil Cioran's Book of Delusions. Especially interesting are his rules for defeating pessimism, which I quote in the last part of this episode. Enjoy!
In this podcast, I am referring to some tables I found in a leading economics textbook, to compare two countries in terms of their tax systems and how their governments spend their money. For example, did you know that South Africa spends most of its money on education, making it one of the highest countries investing in education in the whole world?
In this episode, I am touching on the details of UK government's revenues and spendings. I go through revenues, I compare then with other G7 countries, then I analyze the various sources of Uk govt revenue, then I touch on taxation and various spending areas, also historically, then I end with historical expenditure as % of GDP and the public debt
In this episode, I am discussing some of my favorite quotes from Cioran's Book of Delusions. This book was written in Romanian language by the Romanian French nihilist philosopher.
In this episode, I am exploring some economics textbook graphic, and market failures and benefits, like negative and positive externalities. Then I am exploring taxation on externalities and limits on the quantity produces and in the end the different types of good there are
In this episode, I am exploring how religiosity, use of media influence attitudes like gender equality, liberal sexual values and political engagement. This is my last episode on the great book of Harvard's Pippa Norris and of late University of Maryland's Ronald Inglehart book on cosmopolitanism.
In this video, I am exploring some graphs and tables from the magnificent study of Pippa Norris from Harvard and Ronald Inglehart from University of Maryland, Ann Arbor about cosmopolitanism, globalization in 2005 from World Values Survey
For the video that I am referring to in this video, https://youtu.be/ejMrVU9shd0 between 12:56 and 13:20. You can see clearly how Damiano David is touching either his nose or his mouth to his left hand, where he seems to hold also a glass of wine. His whole attitude that night points that there were serious behavioral issues, including how he handled the question of the journalist. The EBU needs to establish trust by publishing all the footage that night with Maneskin and Barbara Pravi needs to go to court to force Maneskin to take hair drug tests, which would prove they are probably dishonest after stating publicly they are against drugs.
In this episode, I am discussing some tables I found in a book related to average per capita number of telephones, what explain newspapers, radio/TV, and Internet use and the rising globalization of the last 40 years Support me at www.patreon.com/adrianfanaca
In this episode, I am exploring a lot of data on what is culture, who dominates it globally, and what happened to the information gap in the last few decades. Did it grow between high income and low income countries? Or did it shrink? If you liked this episode, please support it: www.patreon.com/adrianfanaca Also, please check my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCExdvhS0viVxjjYqf323hzg
In this episode, I am reviewing the book Unholy War by John Esposito. In his book, Esposito goes through a lot of topics from the philosophy of Islam, but mostly he covers what jihad means for Muslism, and its various interpretations, from the Saudi Arabic ultraconservative to radical interpretations of Sayyd Qutb or Muhammad Abduh. Support me at: www.patreon.com/adrianfanaca
In this short episode, I am listing the countries that watch and most and the less TV. In my view, watching more TV signals troubles, sorry TV watchers! But there are also a lot of countries that watch less TV, even if this is still a minority of their populations. And bare in mind, this data is from the 1990s, however, things haven't changes much in these countries.
In this episode I explore the topic of violence as it was presented by Hannah Arendt in her book, then I continue exposing my negative views on the centralized nation state and I surpringly tell why the famous intellectual Hannah Arendt is at leat weird, if not totally mistaken. Support me at www.patreon.com/adrianfanaca Check my youtube account for the same episode in video at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCExdvhS0viVxjjYqf323hzg
This episode describes the book Psychoanalysis and Religion by Erich Fromm, one of the most extraordinary philosophers of modernity. Atheists will love this. You can add me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adrian.fanaca.5/ You can follow me on Twiter: @raool_90 You can also view these episodes in video format at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCExdvhS0viVxjjYqf323hzg Support me on: https://www.patreon.com/adrianfanaca
This episode represents my views on the nation state, it's oppressive and criminal nature. I ask some questions after reading Bosanquet's The Philosophical Theory of the State, which seemed to me like a religous paper. A lot of people in the past saw the state as something religious, and I think this is dangerous. We can live without the state, which recently is a major source of evil in our societies, starting with its force apparatus of military, intelligence, police, judiciary. Support me at https://www.patreon.com/adrianfanaca
In this episode, I am going to discuss a table from Theda Skocpol's research on comparative social reovolutions in France, Russia and China. In the end, I am developing my own positions on the failure of the modern state and why we need to move on to a better system. Support me at https://www.patreon.com/adrianfanaca
In this episode, I am touching on what did Voltaire think about England after spending some years there as exiled and how conservative Frenchman Joseph de Maistre defended the Spanish Inquisitions against its critics Support me at https://www.patreon.com/adrianfanaca
Sigmund Freud held a lengthy correspondence with a Budapest psychoanalyst, Sandor Ferenczi. We learn from it that Freud had a feud with Adler and even with Jung, who split with Freud around 1910-1912. Freud seems though to keep his theory intact and does not listen to critics. Sandor Ferenczi and his discuss a lot of psychoanalysis and travelling. Support me at https://www.patreon.com/adrianfanaca
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