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at least since World War II, all economic policy has been premised on an ideal of full employment. Now, there is every reason to believe that most policy makers don’t actually want to fully achieve this ideal, as genuine full employment would put too much “upward pressure on wages.”
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
But how can the work of this one novelist (also an essayist, playwright, and philosopher), however influential, be a significant source of insight into the rise of a culture of greed? In a word: sex. Ayn Rand made acquisitive capitalists sexy. She launched thousands of teenage libidos into the world of reactionary politics on a wave of quivering excitement. This sexiness extends beyond romance to infuse the creative aspirations, inventiveness, and determination of her heroes with erotic energy, embedded in what Rand called her “sense of life.”
From the relation of law as the real structure of society to law as immanent order and as will of the sovereign arise the most important problems of legal theory. To reconceive this relation in theory, and then to help change it in practice, is the most pressing task of legal thought now.
The Universal History of Legal Thought
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
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