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Working out what makes people do what they do in the realm of politics is fundamental to working out how to make it in their interest to do better things.
The Dictator's Handbook
de Mesquita Bueno
The market decides which abilities we should harness, while our needs are transformed in view of what we can buy. Many of the abilities that we could develop—if we had the time to lead our lives—are discarded because they are not deemed to be profitable, and many needs are engineered to make us purchase more commodities rather than to provide satisfaction.
This Life
Martin Hägglund
Giussani observed, ideas framed as being about “poverty” are more acceptable than ideas framed as being about “inequality.” The two ideas are related. But __poverty is a material fact of deprivation that does not point fingers, and inequality is something more worrying: It speaks of what some have and others lack; it flirts with the idea of injustice and wrongdoing; it is relational.__
Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas
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