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we know that aid works much better in the presence of good governance (just as we know that more often than not it goes to places with bad governance).
The Dictator's Handbook
de Mesquita Bueno
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
In occupying a role, individuals acquire access to specific resources and powers. In my role as 'professor', for instance, I can gain entry into the university library, request an audience with the dean, inform my students what is the strongest argument against some view, and so on. I can do these things only because there already exists a bundle of expectations about what a 'professor' is, such that it is intelligible and appropriate for me to act in these ways on these relationships.
What Is My Role in Changing the System? A New Model of Responsibility for Structural Injustice
Robin Zheng
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