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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financialization

[...] concentrate on profits in the financial sector. Today we speak of such "financialization" as though it were an invention of the 1970s

—p.14 Structural Crisis, or Why Capitalists May No Longer Find Capitalism Rewarding (9) by Immanuel Wallerstein
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Kondratieff cycles

First, the Kondratieff cycles: In order to accumulate significant amounts of capital, producers require a quasi-monopoly

—p.11 Structural Crisis, or Why Capitalists May No Longer Find Capitalism Rewarding (9) by Immanuel Wallerstein
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materielle Rationalität

material or substantive rationality (Weber's materielle Rationalität)

—p.11 Structural Crisis, or Why Capitalists May No Longer Find Capitalism Rewarding (9) by Immanuel Wallerstein
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artistic idolatry

indulging in what Proust called artistic idolatry

—p.206 How to Put Books Down (173) by Alain de Botton
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volubility

I detest my own volubility

—p.204 How to Put Books Down (173) by Virginia Woolf
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