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Our perception of being wronged or threatened leads us to focus exclusively on the negative aspects of a person or a group. We fail to see people and events in the context of a much vaster web of interrelated causes and conditions.
Happiness
Matthieu Ricard
State and civil society, politics and economics, as Gramsci emphasized, are methodological distinctions, plotted on the same practical ensemble rather than referring to really separate spheres:
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
The discipline of economics itself emerged out of moral philosophy (Adam Smith was a professor of moral philosophy), and moral philosophy, in turn, was originally a branch of theology. Many economic concepts trace back directly to religious ideas. As a result, __arguments about value always have something of a theological tinge.__
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
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