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James Bruges

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My name is James Bruges but hyphenated with my wife, Marion, as Wells-Bruges at Redland Meeting. I have served on the Quaker Economics Issues Group. I was an architect in Bristol and then took to writing. The Little Earth Book kept me busy through four editions. The Big Earth Book followed. I have just finished [...]

What Green Shoots?

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The writers of the Pentateuch banned interest and introduced a 50-year Jubilee for cancellation of debts. Confucian China discovered most of the technical breakthroughs that led the West to prosperity and rejected them: they were more concerned to avoid social disruption than to achieve commercial progress. In the period that produced cathedrals the king’s currency [...]