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Higher Education
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Helene's interest in economics had waned considerably over the years. More and more, the theories that tried to explain economic phenomena, to predict their developments, appeared almost equally inconsistent and random. She was more and more tempted to liken them to pure and simple charlatanism; it was even surprising, she occasionally thought, that they gave a Nobel Prize for economics, as if this discipline could boast the same methodological seriousness, the same intellectual rigor, as chemis
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― La carte et le territoire
― La carte et le territoire
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My priority was getting into university. The notion that that was essential was fundamental to Russian and Soviet education. It testified to class in a society that loudly proclaimed equality for all. If you were accepted, you were clever, had studied hard, and, most likely, came from a good family. If you didn't get in, you were obviously stupid. By the time I was to enroll, universities had begun to give their students a reprieve from the army for the duration of their studies. If you went int
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― Patriot: A Memoir
― Patriot: A Memoir
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