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“mix epic individualism with extreme religion; mix show business with everything else; let all that steep and simmer for a few centuries; run it through the anything-goes 1960s and the Internet age; the result is the America we inhabit today, where reality and fantasy are weirdly and dangerously blurred and commingled.”
― Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
― Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
“What is the impact of the international system on states' behavior? More specifically, does the combination of international anarchy and states' military requirements consistently favor competitive policies? Or instead, can a state's concern about its military capabilities sometimes make cooperation its best option?”
― Rational Theory of International Politics: The Logic of Competition and Cooperation
― Rational Theory of International Politics: The Logic of Competition and Cooperation
“There is a patent conflict between the need to reverse or at least to control the impact of our economy on the biosphere and the imperatives of a capitalist market: maximum continuing growth in the search for profit.”
― How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism
― How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism
“The theory developed in this book is a rationalist, strategic choice theory. It takes the perspective of a state that faces an international environment that presents constraints and opportunities.”
― Rational Theory of International Politics: The Logic of Competition and Cooperation
― Rational Theory of International Politics: The Logic of Competition and Cooperation
“Pre-analytic vision. Worldview. Paradigm. Frame. These are cousin concepts. What matters more than the one you choose to use is to realise that you have one in the first place, because then you have the power to question and change it.”
― Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
― Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
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