The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
NOAM CHOMSKYIn this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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