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United States especially, policy-makersexplicitly discouraged them from cultivating Western-type desires.
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
Everywhere we probed a little deeper, we found the core institutions of private law: contract, property, collateral, trust, corporate, and bankruptcy law.
Katharina Pistor • The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
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The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond
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He argues that a low entropy, or predictable and stable, carrier is required for the emergence of knowledge -- whether it be a fiber optic cable and communication, or a social system governed by the rule of law and economic innovation. Such a social system is not spontaneous, but rather developed through sacrifice and a religious order.
George Gilder • George Gilder on knowledge, power, and the economy
practical shortcoming of chaotic time is that it dissolves society's connective tissue.
William Strauss • The Fourth Turning
a) cashless intra-bank and interbank transactions b) fractional reserve banking and c) central bank monopolies on note issue, the very nature of money evolved in a profoundly important way.