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He had told Moses, O’Dwyer said, that if he was elected he would immediately create a new post to handle a vast program of postwar public works construction, a “Coordinator of Construction” with sweeping powers not only over parks, parkways, bridges and tunnels, but over the construction of public housing, the field from which Moses had been barred
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So, awareness of the problem, a common knowledge, awareness that others know, you know that the others are aware of the problem, the generation of common knowledge.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Il faut néanmoins souligner que, au moment même où un groupe de néolibéraux attaque la CEE, un autre travaille concrètement à sa réalisation. En effet, avec le projet de constitutionnalisation de la CEE, les néolibéraux développent une solution institutionnelle qui transcende le GATT, en établissant un mécanisme de surveillance et, surtout, d’appli
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The law is a powerful tool for social ordering and, if used wisely, has the potential to serve a broad range of social objectives; yet, for reasons and with implications that I attempt to explain, the law has been placed firmly in the service of capital.
Katharina Pistor • The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
As Kevin Rudd noted, “once you have economic power, it in turn engenders political power; it in turn makes possible to have security power through the acquisition of military capabilities, which in turn generates foreign policy power, which in turn generates strategic power”[129].
Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
Dans leur revendication d’une constitution économique pour le monde, les néolibéraux de l’école de Genève insistent sur le fait que gouverner un territoire ne signifie pas posséder les biens qui s’y trouvent. La campagne de la CCI et de ses conseillers néolibéraux a pour but de mettre en place un cadre juridique afin que soit respectée la distincti
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As recipients of US foreign aid, it was in their best interest to appear to be supporting the US in its war effort.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Regional institutions have a mixed record. The Organization of American States lacks the ability to get much done given its requirement for consensus and the lack of military and economic resources at its disposal. The Lima Group, formed by a dozen countries in the region to promote a peaceful outcome in Venezuela, has yet to demonstrate it has muc
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