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The most direct method for comprehending a world in which not all human beings are homo economicus would therefore appear to involve a return to some version of the older tradition. However, why did the older tradition fail in the first place? After all, it seemed to ask some obvious and important questions. How could these questions simply be aban... See more

Peter Thiel • The Straussian Moment

morality of capitalism,

Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do

some governments will allocate their resources in a way that fits with people’s fears rather than in response to the most likely dangers.

Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition

Peter Singer, Australian moral philosopher

Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

People and firms have already made the choices that optimize their well-being. They’re working as many hours as they want, and purchasing the goods and services that best meet their needs. Firms have already chosen the best technology available, given current prices.

Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy

What’s more, those branches of social theory that make the greatest claims to “scientific status”—“rational choice theory,” for instance—start from the same assumptions about human psychology that economists do: that human beings are best viewed as self-interested actors calculating how to get the best terms possible out of any situation, the most

David Graeber • Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded

Mestmäcker décrivait le traité de Rome comme l’application des propositions de Hayek sur la nécessité de lier l’État par des « principes juridiques constitutionnellement garantis191 ». Cependant, il ne pouvait que constater une des faiblesses du droit : son incapacité à reconnaître ses propres aspects politiques192. C’est vers Schmitt qu’il se tour

Quinn Slobodian • Les Globalistes: Une histoire intellectuelle du néolibéralisme (French Edition)

We were promised economic dynamism in exchange for inequality. We got the inequality, but dynamism is actually declining. Call it stagnequality—lower growth combined with rising inequality rather than inflation. It is no surprise, then, that the public has rejected conventional economic wisdom.

Eric Posner, E. Weyl • Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

Self-interest makes the world go around, a point that seems so obvious as to be silly.