GoatwalkingJim Corbett
Goatwalking
by Jim Corbett · first published 1992
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Not to take away from the perfectly adequate linked article, but as a philosophical musing on keeping goats, it reminded me of the fabulous book "Goatwalking" by Jim Corbett. It's a hard to describe book that covers a lot of territory in not too many pages. Here's a review by Mark Schlenze that I think captures a lot of it: --- From the premise that is…
on “For the Love of Goats” ↗…you've never heard of it, seek it out, it's fabulous! Edit: Since alecst has obviously already read Kabloona, I might as well give a few more that are on that "list": Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker, Goatwalking by Jim Corbett, and Hyssop by Kevin McIlvoy. Maybe you'd like one of them too.
on “Economists don't know what's going on” ↗> The net result is such a society could really only exist if protected by a great power. reminds me a bit of Jim Corbett's "Goatwalking".
on “The Moral Economy of the Shire” ↗