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The link between commerce and parliament was as close in Burke’s time as it was a century later. __Even if they never travelled to India themselves, many MPs had an economic interest in the company’s lucrative profits, and their stake may have coloured their decision-making.__
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
More substantively, the kind of temporal dispersion that characterizes climate change seems clearly much more problematic than the associated spatial fragmentation. Indeed, the presence of backloading and deferral together brings on a new kind of collective action problem that not only adds to the global storm, but is also more difficult to resolve. This problem might aptly be described as one of “intergenerational buck-passing.”
A Perfect Moral Storm
Stephen M. Gardiner
Academics are only useful when they try to be useless (say, as in mathematics and philosophy) and dangerous when they try to be useful.
The Bed of Procrustes
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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