(Image Credit: http://www.bol.com) The Harvard economic historian David Landes authored a magisterial work titled “Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of The Modern World”. The book makes a compelling and convincing case for placing the ‘timepiece’ (more than the steam engine and power looms) at the frontispiece of Western economic development. However this seemingly … Continue reading In Praise of Wasting Time – Alan Lightman