Paulo Jorge

“One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars

“A businessman who expects his output to be stolen, expropriated, or entirely taxed away will have little incentive to work, let alone any incentive to undertake investments and innovations.”
― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

“Politics is the process by which a society chooses the rules that will govern it.”
― Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

“The initiatory role of capital is usually belittled by those who stress the importance of entrepreneurship and of technical and managerial knowledge.”
― Albert O. Hirschman, The Strategy Of Economic Development