Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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exigent

If it's a little money, the dream must not be fervently felt. If it's a lot of money, the dream is exigent.

—p.35 Triumph of the Shill (31) missing author
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stagflation

The sun of Reaganomics--which saw in the unfettered market the answer to the political, economic, and cultural stagflation of the 1970s--no longer warms the lower orders of the right.

—p.34 Triumph of the Shill (31) missing author
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guignol

The ballads, legendary fantasies and satirical grand guignol of this period

—p.5 Introduction (3) by Bertolt Brecht
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corvée

serfs, on the other hand, had disposal over their own means of production and the land, but had to yield part of the fruits of their labour in the form of goods in kind to their lords (or perform corvée)

—p.60 Capital in the Twenty-First Century--What to Make of It? (55) by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann
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apodictic

Piketty’s apodictic statements, for example that the long-term consequences of the wealth distribution dynamic is ‘frightening’

—p.44 Hype and Critique (39) by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann
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