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Le XXIe siècle est placé sous le signe de l’entrée dans l’histoire universelle, soit une configuration qui peut sembler très éloignée du monde de la première moitié du XIXe siècle dans lequel a vécu, pensé et écrit Alexis de Tocqueville. L’heure n’est plus à l’ascension de la démocratie mais à sa crise face à l’onde de choc populiste et à l’émergen
... See moreNicolas Baverez • Le Monde selon Tocqueville: Combats pour la liberté (French Edition)
But the crucial hope for the future is that we will not forever need to be making money from exploitative or vain consumer appetites; that we will also learn to generate sizeable profits from helping people – as consumers and producers – in the truly important and ambitious aspects of their lives. The reform of capitalism hinges on an…
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Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
le Donut économie intégrée des humains sociaux et adaptables complexité dynamique distributif par dessein régénératif par dessein agnostique en matière de croissance
Kate RAWORTH • La Théorie du donut
To some, the failure to sustain neighborhood health centers according to their original formulation is surprising, given the conceptual strength of the model, but in retrospect, this evolution might have been predicted. Like the broader policies and programs that made up the War on Poverty, the idea of neighborhood health centers was initiated from
... See moreElizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
It was all part of a way of doing things in the United States that, as I would gradually realize, forced you to be constantly on guard, constantly worried that whatever amount of money you had or earned would never be enough,
Anu Partanen • The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
Vilfredo Pareto is said to have noticed that 80 percent of Italy’s land was owned by just 20 percent of its people, and that 80 percent of the peas yielded by his garden came from just 20 percent of his peapods.
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
En l’état, sans réorganisation de la cité, le coût social du progrès technologique risque d’être immense. Afin d’en faire une source de liberté et non d’aliénation, la collectivité dans son ensemble doit bénéficier des profits générés par les machines. Elles permettent des gains de productivité tels qu’elles rendront de nombreux emplois caducs. La
... See moreRaphael Glucksmann • Les Enfants du vide - De l'impasse individualiste au réveil citoyen (French Edition)
where we reside, how we raise and educate our children, our personal relationship to things, and the quality of our connections to friends, families, and partners impact us as much as tax policies, the price of energy, or the way we organize formal employment.
Kristen R. Ghodsee • Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
roughly half of the population over its lifetime and an average of 11,000 unique daily visitors.