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Thus, for the next quarter century, did governments resolve the so-called ‘trilemma’, according to which a country can choose any two out of three policy options: full freedom of cross-border capital movements; a fixed exchange rate; an independent monetary policy oriented towards domestic objectives.57
Niall Ferguson • The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition
David Foster Wallace • Deciderization 2007—a Special Report

is that to a large extent the United States had to carry out its foreign interventions through the medium of mercenary states. There’s a whole network of U.S. mercenary states. Israel is the major one, but it also includes Taiwan, South Africa, South Korea, the states that are involved in the World Anti-Communist League and the various military gro
... See morePeter Mitchell • Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky

Table rase (tabula rasa), puis saisie du sujet par lui-même comme seul principe absolument certain, enfin constructivisme radical (au sens où la connaissance et l’Histoire sont activement produites par les artefacts de l’ingéniosité humaine) : tel est donc le triptyque qui définit, dans ses fondements théoriques, l’avènement
Claude CAPELIER • La Plus belle histoire de la philosophie (French Edition)

But this same wisdom hasn't yet indicated quite what that means, nor how one might be able to draft a critique of networks.
Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
Or ce principe cardinal s’applique parfaitement à la compréhension du XXe siècle, dont le cours tragique s’organisa autour de l’affrontement entre les nations et les empires, entre la démocratie et le totalitarisme. La dénonciation des thèses raciales de Gobineau, comme la critique du socialisme, qui sacrifie la liberté à l’égalité, souligne par an
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