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Who is Franz Kafka? Few writers have been interpreted so much, and yet remain as mysterious as Kafka. Tonight, Arnon Grunberg and Vivian Liska will discuss his life and work.This year is the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka's passing. Works like The Trial, The Castle and The Metamorphosis have in the years after his death become cornerstones of modern western literature. Together with professor in German literature Vivian Liska, Arnon Grunberg will discuss the life and work of Franz Kafka. What is the relevance of Kafka's work to contemporary readers? And how does Kafka's literature relate to his Jewish identity?Arnon Grunberg Meets is a series of conversations in De Balie in which Arnon Grunberg speaks with prominent thinkers, writers, artists, and politicians. Grunberg previously spoke with Marlene Dumas, Zadie Smith, Tomas Sedlacek, Ulrich Seidl, Deborah Feldman, and Damiaan Denys.Check out the privacy notice on https://art19.com/privacy and the privacy statement of California on https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

#velvetrevolution #vaclavhavel #revolutions #czechrepublic #war #europe #ukraine #russia #invasion (Episode was created 17th of November 2023) Tomas Sedlacek is a university lecturer and media commentator on philosophy of economics. He gained widespread recognition for his book "Economics of Good and Evil" (Oxford University Press), which has been translated into 22 languages. Sedlacek has advised former Czech President Vaclav Havel, and has lectured at the World Economic Forum and various venues around the world. For 16 years he was a Chief Macroeconomic Strategist at the largest Czech bank, and has been a longstanding member of Czech National Economic Council. I production & graphic design @TerezaSlapotova2023 I --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomassedlacek/message

#war #ukraine #russia #europe #economy #nuclearwar #armageddon #optimism Tomas Sedlacek is a university lecturer and media commentator on philosophy of economics. He gained widespread recognition for his book "Economics of Good and Evil" (Oxford University Press), which has been translated into 22 languages. Sedlacek has advised former Czech President Vaclav Havel, and has lectured at the World Economic Forum and various venues around the world. For 16 years he was a Chief Macroeconomic Strategist at the largest Czech bank, and has been a longstanding member of Czech National Economic Council. I production & graphic design @TerezaSlapotova2023 I --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tomassedlacek/message

#ship #fools #democracy #totalitarianism Tomas Sedlacek is a university lecturer and media commentator on philosophy of economics. He gained widespread recognition for his book "Economics of Good and Evil" (Oxford University Press), which has been translated into 22 languages. Sedlacek has advised former Czech President Vaclav Havel, and has lectured at the World Economic Forum and various venues around the world. For 16 years he was a Chief Macroeconomic Strategist at the largest Czech bank, and has been a longstanding member of Czech National Economic Council. I production & graphic design @TerezaSlapotova2023 I --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tomassedlacek/message

#spirit #europe #democracy #freedome #eu Tomas Sedlacek is a university lecturer and media commentator on philosophy of economics. He gained widespread recognition for his book "Economics of Good and Evil" (Oxford University Press), which has been translated into 22 languages. Sedlacek has advised former Czech President Vaclav Havel, and has lectured at the World Economic Forum and various venues around the world. For 16 years he was a Chief Macroeconomic Strategist at the largest Czech bank, and has been a longstanding member of Czech National Economic Council. I production & graphic design @TerezaSlapotova2023 I --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tomassedlacek/message

#war #europe #ukraine #russia #eu Tomas Sedlacek is a university lecturer and media commentator on philosophy of economics. He gained widespread recognition for his book "Economics of Good and Evil" (Oxford University Press), which has been translated into 22 languages. Sedlacek has advised former Czech President Vaclav Havel, and has lectured at the World Economic Forum and various venues around the world. For 16 years he was a Chief Macroeconomic Strategist at the largest Czech bank, and has been a longstanding member of Czech National Economic Council. I production & graphic design @TerezaSlapotova2023 I --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tomassedlacek/message

#CzechRepublic #NewPresident #PetrPavel #hope #spirit Tomas Sedlacek is a university lecturer and media commentator on philosophy of economics. He gained widespread recognition for his book "Economics of Good and Evil" (Oxford University Press), which has been translated into 22 languages. Sedlacek has advised former Czech President Vaclav Havel, and has lectured at the World Economic Forum and various venues around the world. For 16 years he was a Chief Macroeconomic Strategist at the largest Czech bank, and has been a longstanding member of Czech National Economic Council. I production & graphic design @TerezaSlapotova2023 I --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tomassedlacek/message

Tomáš Sedláček – Economics of Good and Evil In Economics of Good and Evil, Sedlacek radically rethinks his field, challenging our assumptions about the world. Economics is touted as a science, a value-free mathematical inquiry, but Sedlacek sees it as a cultural phenomenon, a product of our civilization. To grasp the beliefs underlying economics, he breaks out of the field's confines and explores myths, religion, theology, philosophy, psychology, literature, and film, ranging from the epic of Gilgamesh and the Old Testament to Matrix and the consumerism of Fight Club. In his thrilling, postmodern style, he asks searching “meta-economic” questions about the very soul of economics. Deemed by experts as an impressive advance in “humanomics,” Sedlacek places the wisdom of philosophers and poets over strict mathematical models of human behavior. His groundbreaking work promises to change the very way we think of economics and the way we calculate economic value. The Economics of Good and Evil was first published in Czech original as Ekonomie dobra a zla in May 2009 and quickly became a national phenomenon. The book was the first non-fiction piece that has ever topped national annual list of best-selling titles. Since then, for the first time ever, the prize for the best economic book in Germany goes to a foreigner – Tomas Sedlacek, a young provocative thinker from Prague who became a global phenomenon by presenting a simple yet almost heretical proposition: economics is ultimately about good and evil. Sedlacek won the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair's award for his crossover book Economics of Good and Evil. The title was on Der Spiegel's bestseller list for weeks and became a hot topic in the German press and in the academic world. It topped the list of non-fiction titles in Switzerland and has been, or is being, translated to 14 languages. It was published in the United Kingdom by Oxford University Press (OUP). Taking an unconventional approach, Sedlacek tackles big economic questions from the perspective of arts, history and philosophy. Handelsblatt, the leading German business newspaper, listed the book among its top 50 most influential economic titles in history. The “Deutscher Wirtschaftsbuchpreis” is awarded by Handelsblatt, the Frankfurt Book Fair, and Goldman Sachs under the motto “Understanding the economy”. New perspectives, innovative presentation of issues, clear language and convincing arguments are the key criteria guiding the jury's decision. Placing the wisdom of philosophers and poets over strict mathematical models of human behaviour, Sedlacek's groundbreaking work promises to change the way we calculate economic value. [http://www.tomassedlacek.cz/en/economicsge] Znajdź nas: https://www.youtube.com/c/WszechnicaFWW/ https://www.facebook.com/WszechnicaFWW1/ https://anchor.fm/wszechnicaorgpl---historia https://anchor.fm/wszechnica-fww-nauka https://wszechnica.org.pl/

Zaryzykuję stwierdzenie, że ekonomia nie jest nauką - jest sztuką. Dlatego tacy „matematyczni ekonomiści”, o których mówiłem w poprzednim odcinku mogą wyrządzić więcej szkód niż przynieść korzyści. Jak trafnie zauważył Tomas Sedlacek w książce „Ekonomia dobra i zła” - wielu ekonomistów, gdyby otrzymało zadanie optymalizacji pracy orkiestry symfonicznej , to najprawdopodobniej wyeliminowaliby wszystkie pauzy z ... Artykuł WN 066 – Ekonomia dobra i zła pochodzi z serwisu Bartłomiej Biga.

Arnon Grunberg in gesprek met socioloog Abram de Swaan, die bestudeert hoe massageweld en massamoord zich kunnen voltrekken, en hoe het komt dat de ene groep zich tegen een andere keert.Arnon Grunberg ontmoet is een gesprekkenreeks in waarin de P.C. Hooft-prijswinnaar spreekt met prominente denkers, schrijvers, kunstenaars, en politici. Zo sprak hij eerder onder andere met Marlene Dumas, Zadie Smith, en Tomas Sedlacek.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In last week’s episode of the Strong Towns podcast, Chuck Marohn, the founder and president of Strong Towns, talked with the economist Alison Schrager about uncertainty and risk. In this week’s episode, Chuck provides some additional thoughts on risk—and, in particular, the risks towns and cities are taking with their financial futures. Not only are communities making bad bets by going all-in on the Suburban Experiment, they assume the government (state and federal) or the market will be there to bail them out if the worse—functional,  or actual, insolvency—happens. But, as Chuck demonstrates, that’s an awfully big assumption. For one thing, the federal government and the market are taking huge risks themselves. We can’t count on the market to bail us out; the market today is almost absurdly irrational. And the federal government is a tenuous partner at best. No one has studied just much money the feds can actually afford to borrow. How much debt runway do we have? No one knows, but we’re hurtling down it with abandon. For another thing, because our communities are being built according to the same one-size-fits-all suburban development pattern, they’re likely to fail in the same way. We’re 100% correlated, Chuck says. In that scenario, which cities will get rescued? What will differentiate your town from the one up the road? Drawing on the work of Tomas Sedlacek, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and others, Chuck talks about all the assumptions the government, market, and local communities are all making about one another. Then he talks about how the truly strong towns can take their financial futures into their own hands. Additional Show Notes Allison Schrager: "The only insurance against uncertainty is resilience.” (Podcast) “No one knows how much the government can borrow,” by Noah Smith Tomas Sedlacek: A More Humane Economics (Podcast) Charles Marohn (Twitter) Related Strong Towns Content “Winning Is the Absence of Losing,” by Charles Marohn Articles on antifragility “Strong Towns 101: Risk and Reward,” by Charles Marohn “The Difference between Growth and Wealth,” by Charles Marohn

Philippians 4:10-13, Matthew 6:24, Proverbs 30:7-91. Contentment is Something We Learn2. Contentment is Not Dependent on Our CircumstancesWhen I get __________ then I will be content and happy.3. Contentment is a Struggle in Times of Want or in PlentyMatthew 6:24“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Mammon.” “Mammon means possessions or property. Today we might legitimately translate Mammon as things, money, gain, or success. The god Mammon is left with its pagan name in the Greek text and in most translations in order to remind readers that Mammon is a spiritual force who works with tremendous attracting power to draw us into its orbit and out from under the service of Christ.”Dale Bruner“For untradeable things that cannot be exchanged (such as friendship), there is no way to trade them or swap them (you cannot buy a true friend or inner peace). But you can buy things that seem to be around it: proxies. You can buy a dinner in a restaurant for your friends, but there is no way you can buy true friends by doing so; or you can buy a cabin in the mountains and try to find peace there, but you cannot buy peace itself. Ultimately, advertising functions on this principle: They show you something that cannot be traded (a happy family at breakfast, an escape, or beauty) and offer you a tradable proxy (some kind of breakfast cereal, a mountain cabin, or shampoo). And even though we know this is an illusion and that actors and extras play in ads, we still start to desire a better pillow (mine is responsible for my troubled sleep), new yogurts and cereals (the happy family at breakfast), and shampoo (even if the model in the ad has probably never used the particular brand).”Tomas Sedlacek; Economics of Good and EvilSon of Agor Proverbs 30:7-9“Two things I ask of you, Lord;do not refuse me before I die:Keep falsehood and lies far from me;give me neither poverty nor riches,but give me only my daily bread.Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the Lord? 'Or I may become poor and steal,and so dishonor the name of my God.”“He is richest who is content with the least for contentment is the wealth of nature.”Socrates“The happy man is content with his present lot, no matter what it is, and is reconciled to his circumstances.”Seneca

Philippians 4:10-13, Matthew 6:24, Proverbs 30:7-91. Contentment is Something We Learn2. Contentment is Not Dependent on Our CircumstancesWhen I get __________ then I will be content and happy.3. Contentment is a Struggle in Times of Want or in PlentyMatthew 6:24“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Mammon.” “Mammon means possessions or property. Today we might legitimately translate Mammon as things, money, gain, or success. The god Mammon is left with its pagan name in the Greek text and in most translations in order to remind readers that Mammon is a spiritual force who works with tremendous attracting power to draw us into its orbit and out from under the service of Christ.”Dale Bruner“For untradeable things that cannot be exchanged (such as friendship), there is no way to trade them or swap them (you cannot buy a true friend or inner peace). But you can buy things that seem to be around it: proxies. You can buy a dinner in a restaurant for your friends, but there is no way you can buy true friends by doing so; or you can buy a cabin in the mountains and try to find peace there, but you cannot buy peace itself. Ultimately, advertising functions on this principle: They show you something that cannot be traded (a happy family at breakfast, an escape, or beauty) and offer you a tradable proxy (some kind of breakfast cereal, a mountain cabin, or shampoo). And even though we know this is an illusion and that actors and extras play in ads, we still start to desire a better pillow (mine is responsible for my troubled sleep), new yogurts and cereals (the happy family at breakfast), and shampoo (even if the model in the ad has probably never used the particular brand).”Tomas Sedlacek; Economics of Good and EvilSon of Agor Proverbs 30:7-9“Two things I ask of you, Lord;do not refuse me before I die:Keep falsehood and lies far from me;give me neither poverty nor riches,but give me only my daily bread.Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the Lord? ’Or I may become poor and steal,and so dishonor the name of my God.”“He is richest who is content with the least for contentment is the wealth of nature.”Socrates“The happy man is content with his present lot, no matter what it is, and is reconciled to his circumstances.”Seneca

Every year, Strong Towns founder Chuck Marohn releases a list of the best books he read that year. Past lists have included books that shaped the Strong Towns conversation in profound ways: Chris Arnade’s Dignity (2019), Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind (2017), Cognitive Architecture, by Ann Sussmann and Justin Hollander (2017), and Tomas Sedlacek’s Economics of Good and Evil (2016), to name just a few. Spoiler alert: 2020’s list will include The Myth of Capitalism, coauthored by Denise Hearn, this week’s guest on The Strong Towns Podcast. Hearn is a Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project and an advisor to organizations, asset managers, and companies who want to use their resources to support a more equitable future. In the introduction to The Myth of Capitalism, Hearn and her coauthor, Jonathan Tepper, write that capitalism has been “the greatest system in history to lift people out of poverty and create wealth.” Yet the “capitalism” we see in the U.S. today is so misshapen it hardly qualifies. “The battle for competition is being lost. Industries are becoming highly concentrated in the hands of very few players, with little real competition.” Capitalism without competition, they say, is not capitalism. If you believe in competitive markets, you should be very concerned. If you believe in fair play and hate cronyism, you should be worried. With fake capitalism CEOs cozy up to regulators to get the kind of rules they want and donate to get the laws they desire. Larger companies get larger, while the small disappear, and the consumer and worker are left with no choice. In this episode, Marohn and Hearn discuss why reduced competition—in the form of monopolies, duopolies, and oligopolies—hurts us not only as consumers and workers but as citizens and community members. They talk about the collusion (both direct and tacit) that consolidates wealth and power into fewer hands. And they discuss what our economic systems must learn from natural systems, including the role of competition and the importance of “habitat maintenance.” (Fans of Jane Jacobs' The Nature of Economies will love this part.) Ending on a hopeful note, Marohn and Hearn also discuss the convergence, across industries, of new conversations about how to build stronger towns and stronger economies from the bottom-up. Additional Show Notes: The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition, by Jonathan Tepper with Denise Hearn Denise Hearn (Twitter) Denise Hearn (Website) “My Journey from Free Market Ideologue to Strong Towns Advocate,” by Charles Marohn The Ultimate Strong Towns Reading List  

"Growth is good. Like a sunny day. But having an economy that assumes all sunny days is a recipe for disaster." This is one of the central insights from this week's podcast, featuring our very special guest, Tomas Sedlacek.  Strong Towns president Chuck Marohn has described Sedlacek, a celebrated Czech economist and the author of The Economics of Good and Evil, as one of the greatest influences on his thinking. In this week's episode of the Strong Towns podcast, Marohn and Sedlacek dive deep into our economic system, which venerates the "cruel deity" of "the god of growth." Growth capitalism, as Sedlacek describes it, esteems growth above all else — even over values like democracy, stability and neighborliness. In such a system, the previously unthinkable either subtly or suddenly becomes credible. We see the fruits of our economic system not just on our spreadsheets but in our built and social environments. In fact, says Sedlacek, our spreadsheets may be obstructing our view of the truth, which is that the economy, like almost everything in nature, goes in cycles. "I'm not against growth," he says. "I'm just against expecting that every year will be a growing year." Economics, he says, is too human to be studied as a hard science, like chemistry or physics. We should approach it like we would psychology, sociology and philosophy. Appropriately then, Chuck's conversation with Sedlacek ranges from discussions about the 2008 financial crisis and modern monetary theory, to a story from the Hebrew Bible, the etymology of the word "credit" (from the Latin credere, meaning "belief"), and Aristotle’s take on interest rates. Sedlacek also talks about what a society could look like it if it didn't have, at its center, unrealistic expectations of ceaseless growth.

Our last new podcast episode of this year finds Strong Towns founder and president Chuck Marohn busily baking cookies ('tis the season), and musing on a series of questions posed to him by a Detroit-based journal. The questions get at the heart of some of the hot-button issues in urban planning: the legacy of systemic racism in our cities, the role that urban planning might play in combatting and correcting for this legacy, and how 21st-century fads (the "creative class", new transportation technologies, et cetera) play into the discussion. Chuck questions the notion that contemporary planners-with-a-capital-P are well-positioned to correct for the mistakes of the past, particularly with regard to racial segregation and disparities in our cities. One reason: we haven't really reckoned honestly with that legacy. It's easy to caricature redlining and other past policies—"Wow, that's just horrifically racist! We today would see that as beyond the pale." And yet, Chuck argues, we do things today that produce more or less similar results. Segregation is still pervasive, and so are disparities in economic outcomes. At the level of top-down policy, especially federal policy, unfair outcomes have a way of embedding and perpetuating themselves. And it's not because most individuals are mean-spirited racists of a sort we can simply dismiss as incomprehensible to our modern, enlightened selves. There are tougher questions we need to ask ourselves about who gets the power to shape cities. Those with advantages—with preferential access to the levers of the system—are going to use those advantages for the benefit of themselves and those they care about. "How," Chuck asks, "do we empower communities that are disempowered today so that they have that capacity as well? So that they can lift themselves up, the ones they love up, and the people around them up?" Until we reckon with that question, our cities will too often be fragile places AND places where the least powerful suffer the most. Listen to this podcast episode for more on this topic, as well as Chuck's take on:  The importance of the "creative class" in cities, and what planners sometimes get wrong about the concept. Why both the political left and right invoke images of the post-World War II era as a model to aspire to today. Why the economy ought to be more like a person walking and less like a person on a bike. (Hat tip to Tomas Sedlacek.) Why scooters are great, but scooters aren't the answer to carbon emissions or car dependence. Why the same is true for (insert transportation technology here).

Tomas Sedlacek maakte als 13-jarige jongen de val van het communisme mee. Op zijn 24ste werd hij adviseur van Vaclav Havel, de schrijver die president van Tsjechië werd. Hij brak internationaal door met zijn boek 'De economie van goed en kwaad'. De economen hebben het voor het zeggen. Met hun rekenmodellen en wiskundige formules geven zij richting aan het politieke en maatschappelijke debat. Maar volgens Sedlacek ontbreekt echter een essentiële dimensie: de ethiek. De belangrijkste waarden in het leven zijn niet uit te drukken in cijfers.

Chuck and Rachel discuss a recent trip to South Carolina, a week of open SlackChats and the March Madness competition. Plus, Chuck shares insights on economist, Tomas Sedlacek.

Chuck Marohn steps back to look at the Growth Ponzi Scheme and where it has taken us today. How do we currently deal with slow-downs in growth? How do anti-fragile, resilient, and fragile communities handle challenges differently? Chuck pulls from economists and scientists like Tomas Sedlacek and Jared Diamond to consider what the end of the Growth Ponzi Scheme might look like. It ain't pretty.

What have the Book of Genesis and the movie Fight Club got to do with GDP? According to the radical Czech economist, Tomas Sedlacek, quite a lot. He believes notions of sin and belief recorded in ancient texts should influence our thinking about the contemporary economy - and he describes the biblical story of the 7 fat cows and 7 lean cows as "the first macro-economic forecast". He argues passionately that we need to make the economy work for us, rather than us working for the state of the economy. And he condemns the way most nations have got themselves hooked on debt, in a never-ending cycle. Evan Davis interviewed Sedlacek,at University College London as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations for the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Producer: Hugh Levinson.

In episode #241, Tomas Sedlacek examines the Old and New Testaments as well as ancient Greek and Roman myths that contain archetypal stories that he believes inform modern economic thinking.