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Willis Johnson • Junk to Gold: From Salvage to the World’S Largest Online Auto Auction
The social is therefore inherently unstable.
Hyun Ok Park • Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
When we refuse to recognize what works, we risk swallowing the lie that nothing does.
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
It was one thing to showcase our excellence through the societal standards of success, but what did it all mean if as a collective, we were still relegated to the bottom of the social ladder. It’s as if the benefits of integration would come at the cost of Black obligation to ourselves. We lacked a moral standard, ethics, values, and a code of cond
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Timothy Butler • Getting Unstuck: A Guide to Discovering Your Next Career Path
already dim job and housing prospects. In the history of the nation, there has only been one other state-sponsored initiative more antifamily than mass incarceration, and that was slavery.
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
Burt, Ronald S. “Social Contagion and Innovation: Cohesion Versus Structural Equivalence.” American Journal of Sociology 92, no. 6 (1987): 1287. ―――. Social Origins of Good Ideas. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2003. http://www.uchicago.edu/fac/ronald.burt/research/SOGI.pdf.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
IAMs, or integrated assessment models, because they combine assumptions about the physical world with macroeconomic equations.