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an effective decision is always a judgment based on “dissenting opinions” rather than on “consensus on the facts.”
The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
In 1667, the Treaty of Breda transferred the island of Run “permanently to the Dutch as part of a wider settlement that also included the handing over of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (later New York) to the English.” This bargain may be forgotten in the United States, but the few dozen people who live on tiny, sunbaked Run still take pride in being the inhabitants of the island that was exchanged for Manhattan.
The Nutmeg’s Curse
Amitav Ghosh
Economic Man is a bourgeois construction— as Marcel Mauss said, “not behind us, but before, like the moral man.” __It is not that hunters and gatherers have curbed their materialistic “impulses”; they simply never made an institution of them.__
Stone Age Economics
Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber
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