Just read Fedor Vergins (DOB unknown) Das Unbewusste Europa. Psychoanalyse der Europäischen Politik (1931). A rather weird mix of arguments and pseudo-theoritic speculations, not free from the misogynic, racist and technocratic prejudices of the time. Yet, it contains some intriguing observations of Europe’s predicament.

Just read Melinda Cooper‘s Family Values (2017) "The curious logic of credit-its ability to materialise the future in the present-was her harnessed [in the 1970s] as a means of recapturing non-normative desire in the inherently regressive form of private familial debt." @ANU_SOCY

Just read The Transition from War to Peace Economy. Report of the Delegation on Economic Depressions. Part I. Leage of Nations, Geneva 1943. It set the objectives of production growth, full employment, international trade & welfare state. 80 years on, it’s growth and trade mainly.

Just read Charles Levinson’s (1920-1997) Vodka-Cola (1978). Intriguing questioning by a prominent international trade unionist of the economic dimensions of the 1960/70s détente, albeit a bit idiosyncraically put together, yet full of interesting detail and surprisingly relevant.

Just read Daniel Bell‘s (1919-2011) The Cultural Contradictions of #Capitalism (1976 with 1978 foreword & 1996 afterword). Excellent foresight of our current predicament. How to reconcile techno-economy, democratic polity, humanistic culture? Open questions for 2023 & beyond.

Just read Arthus Müller‘s (1873-1955) #Jugend und Völkerbund. Erziehung zur Völkerbundsgesinnung (#Youth and the League of Nations) (1928). @EYY2022 triggered my interest in the genealogy of European youth cooperation. https://www.cife.eu/Ressources/FCK/files/publications/policy%20paper/2022/CIFE_Flessenkemper_European%20Year%20of%20Youth%202022.pdf

Just read J R Glorney Bolton‘s (1901-1975) Roman Century 1870-1970 (1970). A quirky history of the Popes‘ Temporal Power and the #Vatican, #Italy and the Savoyard Kings, and the idea of European unity, narrated by a European Englishman.