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John Luttig • Rippling and the Return of Ambition
The liberal aversion to national interest stems from an idealism, a larger vision of country, a vision of some ambition and nobility—the ideal of a true international community. And that is: To transform the international system from the Hobbesian universe into a Lockean universe. To turn the state of nature into a norm-driven community. To turn th
... See moreCharles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
In the post–Windows 95 world, Apple was facing an existential crisis. It was quickly losing its raison d’être, but Amelio didn’t get the urgency of the moment. Apple was in such free fall that between 1995 and 1998, revenues nearly halved, from $11.1 billion to $5.9 billion, meaning Apple needed to cut $1.7 billion of costs per year just to tread w
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
rabbit. So you can think of the economy as a series of shocks moving to an equilibrium, shock, moving to an equilibrium.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
The primary job of business is to solve human problems, and the primary job of the state, then, is to create the conditions for large-scale cooperation to allow that process to happen. That involves things like promoting inclusion. You can’t have large-scale cooperation if you’re systematically excluding large groups of people. You have to have fai
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