James Steuart News Today

December brought the publication of The Return of Inflation: Money and Capital in the Twenty-First Century (London: Reaktion, 2023), by Paul Mattick, who is—full disclosure—the Field Notes editor. Members of the Berlin collective Friends of the Classless Society thought that a conversation about issues raised by the book would be helpful because of the obfuscation and difficulty normally associated with discussion of money.

IN primary five, we learned Kenneth McKellar’s “Song of the Clyde”. “Of all Scottish rivers it’s dearest to me,” I sang with 60 other…

George Steuart & Co Commences Restoration of Centuries Old Artifacts January, 21, 2021 George Steuart & Co., Sri Lanka’s oldest mercantile establishment, has commenced an exciting project to restore a repository of artifacts that trace back to its founding in 1835 and its early operations. The recently uncovered artifacts include diaries and journals belonging to the founders, ledgers, profit and loss accounts, company seals, employment records and many more documents from the early 1800s. Th...