“The way law stays alive is by remaining in touch with social contracts pieced together among real people on the ground.”
― The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
― The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
“The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.”
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“Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“Formal property’s contribution to mankind is not the protection of ownership; squatters, housing organizations, mafias, and even primitive tribes manage to protect their assets quite efficiently. Property’s real breakthrough is that it radically improved the flow of communications about assets and their potential.”
― The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
― The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
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