- Tags:: 📚Books- Author:: Paul Collier, John Kay
- Genre:: Economics, Politics, Nonfiction, Business, Audiobook, Sociology, 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
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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)