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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rentiers

Beyond a certain level of wealth, it’s hard to see why the law should force parents to turn their children into rentiers.

—p.40 Lessons for the Tax System from the Bettencourt Affair (38) by Thomas Piketty
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fractious

the party was internally fractious and snidely perceived as inaudible in national policy debates

the French Socialist party

—p.51 With or Without a Platform? (51) by Thomas Piketty
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réserve héréditaire

whatever the size of the fortune, children have a right to the réserve héréditaire. Parents may only freely dispose of what's called the quotité disponible, set at 50 percent of the estate when there's one child, 33 percent with two children, and 25 percent with three or more children.

—p.40 Lessons for the Tax System from the Bettencourt Affair (38) by Thomas Piketty
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tax dumping

The economic crisis revived the controversy over 'tax dumping,' as critics call it

—p.29 The Irish Disaster (29) by Seth Ackerman
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liquidationism

After the calamitous Hoover presidency, mired for three years in a 'liquidationist' strategy aimed at letting 'bad' banks fail one after the other

—p.22 Obama and FDR: A Misleading Analogy (22) by Thomas Piketty
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