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c. The imagined order is inter-subjective. Even if by some superhuman effort I succeed in freeing my personal desires from the grip of the imagined order, I am just one person. In order to change the imagined order I must convince millions of strangers to cooperate with me. For the imagined order is not a subjective order existing in my own imagination – it is rather an inter-subjective order, existing in the shared imagination of thousands and millions of people.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
As Brown argues, the phrase best practices carries two complementary meanings. First, the term describes a basically market-based (i.e., profit-driven) standard of evaluation, which organizes how we think about public services like public higher education. Additionally, best practices imbues actual profit-driven organizations with the public accountability that the public sector is supposed to provide. __Because best practices incorporates ethics and accountability into its logic, it implies a kind of self-regulation: why regulate a corporation when its best practices already require it to act ethically?__
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John Patrick Leary
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
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