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).

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the free-market policy package

The free-market policy package, often known as the neo-liberal policy package, emphasizes lower inflation, greater capital mobility and greater job insecurity (euphemistically called greater labour market flexibility), essentially because it is mainly geared towards the interests of the holders of …

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism Thing 6 (51) by Ha-Joon Chang
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Rentenmark

when Rentenmark, the new currency, was introduced

Thing 6 (51) by Ha-Joon Chang
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prioritising the digital divide

Even more worryingly, the fascination with the internet by people in rich countries has moved the international community to worry about the 'digital divide' between the rich countries and the poor countries. This has led companies, charitable foundations and individuals to donate money to developi…

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the washing machine

[...] the washing machine and other household appliances, which, by vastly reducing the amount of work needed for household chores, allowed women to enter the labour market and virtually abolished professons with domestic service [...]

Thing 4 (31) by Ha-Joon Chang