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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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churlish

In such a situation it would be churlish not to acknowledge the forces that are in the vanguard of socio-ecological change

—p.134 Capital Evolves (119) by David Harvey
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arrant

others preach that our current problems arise out of arrant individualism and universal human greed

—p.133 Capital Evolves (119) by David Harvey
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scion

many of whom, like the Rockefeller brothers, were scions of the capitalist class

—p.130 Capital Evolves (119) by David Harvey
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synoptic

A synoptic view of the current crisis would say

—p.118 Capital Goes to Market (106) by David Harvey
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Kondratieff cycles

it has long been argued that there are so-called 'long waves' or 'Kondratieff cycles' lasting on average fifty years in capitalist developmental history based upon tehcnological innovations

he thinks the theory is incomplete (doesn't account for cultural/organisational shifts?)

—p.96 Creative Destruction on the Land (84) by David Harvey
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