Name me a village where a Nobel prize was won

“Some cynic said to me, name me a village where a Nobel prize was won.” I heard Professor Ricky Burdett of the LSE’s Cities Institute say this on an excellent piece of radio on London’s development the other day and it got me thinking about the city and the countryside. The city – as a […]

Cooperation and peasants

Interesting to see the significant role that cooperation and collective management have played in the livelihood of peasants through history – probably the livelihood for the majority of people in the world for the last eight centuries. “By and large the characteristic of traditional peasants is a much higher degree of formal and informal (mostly […]