Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

26
New
10
Incomplete
14
Unread
37
Publications
718
Complete
5
Ignored

Activity

Filter
Section Author Term Note Book Tag All
You added a section
7 years, 5 months ago

Chapter 3: Th e Economic Consequences of the Perpetual Peace by Richard Dienst
The Bonds of Debt

You added a vocabulary term
7 years, 5 months ago

scission

Through its operations the scission between wealth and poverty turns into a self-reinforcing pincer.

—p.62 Chapter 2: Inequality, Poverty, Indebtedness (33) by Richard Dienst
notable
You added a note
7 years, 5 months ago

different kinds of household debt

—In the US, the UK, and the EU, the ratio of household debt to GDP has been rising alarmingly since the 1980s. Even so, these broad measures conceal the very differences that the wealth and inequality figures revealed: debt means rather different things for households at different ends of the scale…

—p.61 Chapter 2: Inequality, Poverty, Indebtedness (33) by Richard Dienst
You added a vocabulary term
7 years, 5 months ago

vicissitudes

What might appear to each of us as vicissitudes of fate and fortune are actually organized by more durable relationships and processes that usually remain opaque.

—p.46 Chapter 2: Inequality, Poverty, Indebtedness (33) by Richard Dienst
notable
You added a vocabulary term
7 years, 5 months ago

bulwark

it seems long ago that anybody trusted the state to serve as a bulwark against the global system

—p.39 Chapter 2: Inequality, Poverty, Indebtedness (33) by Richard Dienst
notable