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For the English-speaker, common sense came to denote, in the words of the OED, “good sound practical sense; combined tact and readiness in dealing with the every-day affairs of life; general sagacity.” Senso comune, by contrast, is a more neutral term that lacks these strong positive connotations, referring rather to the beliefs and opinions held in common, or thought to be held in common, by the mass of the population; all those heterogeneous narratives and accepted “facts” that structure so much of what we take to be no more than simple reality.
Gramsci's Common Sense
Kate Crehan
From the Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises’s argument that the market is a permanent election in which each dollar counts as a ballot, to the US public-choice theorist James Buchanan’s reconfiguring of politics as a sphere of self-maximising individual competition, to the Chicago School economist Gary Becker’s contention that a marriage is a two-person firm and children are household-produced commodities, neoliberalism appears to be the extension of economic rationality to all areas of life.
The Morals of the Market
Jessica Whyte
“Systems change equals policy change, so
get comfortable with policy change.”
Moving Philanthropy Forward in 2022
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