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Ravenous – Henry Dimbleby, Profile Books (2023)
Occasionally, economists come up with good ideas. A ‘policy trilemma’ states that, at any given time, governments can only achieve two of three competing goals. Owing to mutual exclusivity, one of the sovereign’s aims must be dropped.
The UK is currently facing a policy trilemma – to make food cheaply
The Invention of Nature, Andrea Wulf, John Murray Publishers (2015)
As its name suggests, The Invention of Nature is a puzzling book. Nature isn’t invented, it just is. Not quite, according to Andrea Wulf. She contends that the idea of nature was conceived by the pre-eminent Prussian polymath Alexander Von Humboldt (1769-1859).
Though obsessed with scientific measurement, Humboldt bolted