"The way I think of it, economics and……" — Charles C. Mann
"The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it's not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa."
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14 Quotes by Charles C. Mann
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In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s…
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The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign…
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Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of…
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A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.
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Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
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Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
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The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.
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The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.
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A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and…
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Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in…
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Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such…
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Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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