Welcome to Bookmarker!

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

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7 years, 4 months ago

arming both sides and profiting from it

[...] evidence is emerging that, in defiance of the law, throughout the war GM secretly maintained its link with Opel, which built not only military cars but aircraft, landmines and torpedoes. So it seems that GM was arming both sides and profiting from it.

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism Thing 18 (190) by Ha-Joon Chang
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the nation's ability to organize individuals

[...] Even when it comes to higher education, which is supposed to matter more in the knowledge economy, there is no simple relationship between it and economic growth. What really matters in the determination of national prosperity is not the educational levels of individuals but the nation's abil…

Thing 17 (178) by Ha-Joon Chang
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collective entrepreneurship

[...] what makes the poor countries poor is not the lack of raw individual entrepreneurial energy, which in fact they have in abundance. The point is that what really makes the rich countries rich is their ability to channel the individual entrepreneurial energy into collective entrepreneurship.

Thing 15 (157) by Ha-Joon Chang
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problems with microfinance

[...] without subsidies from government or international donors, microfinance institutions have to charge, and have been charging, near-usurious rates. It has been revealed that the Grameen Bank could initially charge reasonable interest rates only because of the (hushed-up) subsidies it was gettin…

Thing 15 (157) by Ha-Joon Chang
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the author does not precede the works

Second, there are reasons dealing with the "ideological" status of the author. The question then becomes: How can one reduce the great peril, the great danger with which fiction threatens our world? The answer is: One can reduce it with the author. The author allows a limitation of the cancerous an…

—p.221 What is an Author? by Michel Foucault