- Tags:: #📚Books- Author:: [[paul-collier|Paul Collier]], [[john-kay|John Kay]] - Genre:: [[economics|Economics]], [[politics|Politics]], [[nonfiction|Nonfiction]], [[business|Business]], [[audiobook|Audiobook]], [[sociology|Sociology]], [[sustainability|Sustainability]] - Source date:: [[2020-07-30]] - Audience score:: 7.04 - Link:: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60390688-greed-is-dead - ISBN:: 9780141994178 - Added to vault date:: [[2025-02-07]] - Finished date:: - Liked:: - Cover:: <img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1677852273i/60390688.jpg" width="100"> ## Why did I want to read it? Como ando indignadísimo con que la gente sea tonta hasta el punto de pensar en hacerme de derechas... a ver si intento compensar. ## What did I get out of it? >'...we Athenians are able to judge at all events if we cannot originate, and, instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling-block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all. Again, **in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the same persons.'** > >—Pericles' funeral oration, as perhaps reported by/ perhaps written by Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (translation, R. Crawley, 2004), Athens, 430BC >expressive individualism was characteristic of the progressive left as well as the alt-right. (p. xvii)