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"[...] Chang (2007) classifies the US and other advanced countries as 'Bad Samaritans' who tell the rest of the world "do as we say, not as we did" in order to take advantage of less developed countries' relatively disadvantageous position vis-à-vis more advanced countries." p. 39
— Aug 25, 2018 04:33PM
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"[...] struggles against dictatorship contain within them myriad forces and potentialities. [...] the particular democratic and political economic forms that emerge will depend on the power, strategies and capacities of the contending forces [...]" p.207
— Sep 11, 2019 01:13AM
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"The inescapable paradox of development theory and policy - the advocacy of exploiting, oppressing and constraining the human development of labouring classes, for their benefit-." p.185
— Sep 11, 2019 01:12AM
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""By neccesities I understand [...] whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even the lower order, to be without. Custom has rendered shoes a neccesary of life in England. The poorest creditable person of either sex would be ashamed to appear in public life without them."" p.177
— Aug 29, 2019 05:21PM
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""The fantasy about the magical value of work for women is a middle-class one - it presumes that jobs are well paid and fulfilling... One must ask if work that is badly paid, back breaking, exploitative, or boring liberates women."" p. 168
— Aug 29, 2019 05:17PM
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""The facts of the economy were originally embedded in situations that were not in themselves of an economic nature [...]."" "[...] not all forms of society in human history can be reduced to market relations and 'the logic of rational action'." pp. 139-140
— Aug 23, 2019 05:56PM
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'"To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment... would result in the demolition of society..."" p.135
— Aug 23, 2019 05:49PM
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""Without slavery you have no cotton; without cotton you have no modern industry. It is slavery that gave the colonies their value; it is the colonies that created world trade, and it is world trade that is the precondition of large-scale industry."" p.122
— Aug 23, 2019 05:45PM
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"[...] the fallacy of composition - that what is good for one country is good for all countries -" p.102
— Aug 23, 2019 05:41PM
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"Industrialisation is not simply a technological issue but requires the reordering of society." p.98
— Oct 21, 2018 04:06PM
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""The privilege of historical backwardness —and such privilege exists— permits, or rather compels, the adoption of whatever is ready in advance of any specified date, skipping a whole series of intermediate stages."" p.80
— Oct 21, 2018 04:04PM
