Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
shakedown.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A community for live music fans with roots in the jam scene. Shakedown Social is run by a team of volunteers (led by @clifff and @sethadam1) and funded by donations.

Administered by:

Server stats:

282
active users

shakedown.social: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.7

#angus

2 posts2 participants2 posts today
Public *
Claude Trudel

Nouveau-Rosemont – 350 logements abordables : début du projet de l’îlot Angus par la Société de développement Angus (SDA)
Par Stéphane Plante
estmediamontreal.com/ilot-angu
#Montréal #Québec #Canada #logement #Rosemont #Angus #SDA #construction #urbanisme #école

EST MÉDIA Montréal · 350 LOGEMENTS ABORDABLES : DÉBUT DU PROJET DE L'ÎLOT ANGUS PAR LA SDA - EST MÉDIA MontréalEn décembre dernier, la Société de développement Angus (SDA) a lancé les travaux de décontamination des sols sur le site où seront construits deux immeubles destinés à accueillir 350 logements abordables hors marché. Ce projet immobilier, nommé l’Îlot Angus, actuellement dans la première phase des travaux, prendra place sur la rue Molson, entre les rues Mont-Royal et William-Tremblay. 
Public
Claude Trudel

Les « Chroniques d’Angus » explorent l’univers d'une grande entreprise du 20e siècle, les Ateliers Angus, propriété du Canadien Pacifique. Du choix de l’emplacement des shops jusqu’à leur fermeture définitive en 1992, revivez les moments marquants de cette épopée industrielle. Et suite à la fermeture, le virage vers l'économie sociale .
sda-angus.com/le-carnet/chroni
#Rosemont #Montréal #Québec #Canada #CPR #Angus #train #locomotives #histoire

Société de développement AngusChroniques d'Angus - nouvelle série baladosLes Chroniques d'Angus explorent l'univers d'une grande entreprise du 20e siècle, les Ateliers Angus, propriété du Canadien Pacifique. Du choix de l'emplacement des shops jusqu'à leur fermeture définitive en 1992, revivez les moments marquants de cette épopée industrielle. Et suite à la fermeture,…
Public
Kristie

We only ended up at Tealing Dovecot (or Doocot in Scotland) on our way to Tealing Earth House.

I was keen to get to the souterrain, so thought twice about going in. To be honest, the building seemed rather unremarkable....

I couldn’t have been more wrong.

Open the door to this incredible Doocot in Angus by reading our short blog (with photos!)

thedrystonecompany.com/dryston

A colour photograph of a sandstone lintel stone with intertwined initials, a monogram.
#Historic#History#Doocot
Public
Kristie

A wee blog about the amazing Aberlemno standing stones.

Aberlemno feels like the centre of the Pictish universe. Huge, carved, Pictish standing stones have been pulled from the ground in or near the village. One as recently as 2022.

The blog includes detailed photos of some of the beautiful carvings, and bonus images of some really old gravestones in the churchyard.

thedrystonecompany.com/dryston

A colour photograph of a large standing stone. The slab is sandstone and is covered in intricate carvings of a battle scene. Behind it are gravestones and trees.
#Aberlemno#StandingStones#History
Public *
Chuck Darwin

Nobel Laureate economist #Angus #Deaton has delivered a ferocious rebuke to his own profession, saying economists have failed to understand that ⭐️capitalism is about power.⭐️

Deaton lobs a series of truth bombs at his own profession, the result, he says, of “changing my mind, a discomfiting process for someone who has been a practising economist for more than half a century”.

These include:

🔸“We have largely stopped thinking about #ethics and about what constitutes human #well-#being”.

🔸If “economists should focus on efficiency and leave equity to others, to politicians or administrators… 🔹the others regularly fail to materialise🔹, so that when efficiency comes with upward redistribution
— frequently though not inevitably
— our recommendations become little more than a #license for #plunder”.

🔸“#Historians, who understand about contingency and about multiple and multidirectional causality, often do a better job than economists of identifying important mechanisms…”

🔸Far from being “a nuisance that interfered with economic (and often personal) efficiency”, #unions “once raised wages for members and nonmembers, they were an important part of social capital in many places, and they brought political power to working people in the workplace and in local, state, and federal governments.

🔸Their decline is contributing to the falling wage share, to the widening #gap between executives and workers, to community #destruction, and to rising #populism.”

🔸“I am much more sceptical of the benefits of free trade to American workers and am even sceptical of the claim, which I and others have made in the past, that globalisation was responsible for the vast reduction in global poverty over the past 30 years”.

🔸Immigration contributes to inequality.

But Deaton’s main point is a recognition of how #power distorts #policy:
“Our emphasis on the virtues of free, competitive markets and exogenous technical change can distract us from the importance of power in setting prices and wages, in choosing the direction of technical change, and in influencing politics to change the rules of the game.”

crikey.com.au/2024/03/12/nobel

Crikey · Nobel laureate economist savages his own profession as clueless and unethicalNobel Laureate economist Angus Deaton has delivered a ferocious rebuke to his own profession, saying economists have failed to understand that capitalism is about power.
ExploreLive feeds
About