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hard work” is increasingly disconnected from economic outcomes
Paul Millerd • The Individualism Myth | #241
The US could testify to the effectiveness of Prussian education as a tool for domination and power, as American educators had been making pilgrimages to Germany for more than half a century.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
growing tendency to quantify the social world, accompanied by changes in the assignment of worth which are then translated into new hierarchies.
Steffen Mau • The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social
It seems we live in a confused economy where price has little relation to value and growth doesn’t necessarily translate into increased welfare or happiness.
Paul Behrens • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
As a result, between 2003 and 2007, 96% of people studied in such behavioural experiments came from countries that were home to only 12% of the world’s population.
Kate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
tutor effect.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential
Education is usually seen as a high-leverage way of addressing these issues.
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
Thus a neo-liberal meritocracy leads to its own point of departure: universal egotism.
Paul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
those policies targeted at universal primary education have had tremendous progressive consequences over the long term, while others had less impact.