Sublime

America has come to embody the most extreme expression of progressive linearism.

integrity.

When returns to violence are high and rising, magnitude means more than efficiency. Larger entities tend to prevail over smaller ones.

operated by trust companies and banks in many states; or, if his funds are substantial, use the services of a recognized investment-counsel firm.

the study of megapolitics. In two previous volumes, Blood in the Streets and The Great Reckoning, we argued that the most important causes of change are not to be found in political manifestos or in the pronouncements of dead economists, but in the hidden factors that alter the boundaries where power is exercised. Often, subtle changes in climate,

he takes a much keener interest in the concrete institutional structure of democratic society than either Horkheimer or Adorno.

As technology revolutionizes the tools we use, it also antiquates our laws, reshapes our morals, and alters our perceptions.

But from the 1970s onward, power shifted. Households now invested their savings through large and powerful intermediaries such as pension funds and mutual funds. The rules that had been set up to protect individual savers against the greed or incompetence of corporate executives were now leveraged by professional agents with billions of dollars of

Families who understand that the growth of their human capital is the first priority of their long-term wealth business have their priorities right.