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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
“It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does. The vast majority of printed works enter a state of suspended animation within a few weeks or years of publication, from which they are occasionally awakened, for equally short periods, by research students.”
― How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism
― How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism
“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
“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
“And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answer, but the question.”
― How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism
― How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism
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