Brandon Marcus
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Brandon Marcus
The belief in a world with no national borders, in which goods could be produced everywhere and sold anywhere with a minimum of friction, had been a cardinal principle of the neoliberal order. As this belief lost influence, so did the order that it had done so much to bring into being. “Protectionism” had been a dirty word of political economy for
... See moreGary Gerstle • The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
Early Amazon held out a real prospect of changing class dynamics in the United States, by enriching an entrepreneurial sector of small businesses across the nation. But the creation of a class of independent businesses means less if they are dependent upon a far larger business. They become a dependent class, and at its worst, can end up in a
... See moreTim Wu • The Age of Extraction
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A huge problem with the modern world, if you’ll permit me, is a confusion between arts and sciences: people try to apply scientific principles to the arts, and vice versa, with the result being a giant muddle.
Against Polling
This majority illusion can trick you into believing that a minority opinion is the dominant consensus point of view overall when it’s really the viewpoint of the loudest or best connected members of a community.
Invisible Rulers
The ability to choose what matters in a world drowning in what doesn’t.
Taste Is the New Intelligence
An Ecological Technology – with James Bridle
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