Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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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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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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In 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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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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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