From the monthly archives: December 2009

Using Deliverance as Middleware (with Proxying)

By Rufus Pollock On December 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Deliverance is a great library that lets you easily re-theme external websites on the fly. Designed as WSGI middleware, it can be easily combined with some proxying to integrate a bunch of websites together

You can use deliverance plus proxying out-of-the-box using the deliverance-proxy command. However, I was interested in using Deliverance as middleware [...]

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Historical Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game

By Rufus Pollock On December 7, 2009 · 2 Comments

Attended an interesting talk today: “Historical Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game” by Professor Charles Calomiris, Columbia Business School. Sporadic notes below. See also this Weaving History thread on Financial Crises.

Notes One crisis with 20 different explanations. Need to sort these out a little. If banks are uninsured then in [...]
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The Elusive Disappearance of Community

By Rufus Pollock On December 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

From Laslett ‘Phillipe Ariès and “La Famille”‘ p.83 (quoted in Eisenstein, p.131):

The actual reality, the tangible quality of community life in earlier towns or villages … is puzzling … and only too susceptible to sentimentalisation. People seem to want to believe that there was a time when every one belonged to an active, [...]

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