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“Thinking ‘economistically’, as we have done now for thirty years, is not intrinsic to humans.” quote by Tony Judt — Download Open image

““Thinking ‘economistically’, as we have done now for thirty years, is not intrinsic to humans.””

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“That the state might exceed its remit and damage the market by distorting its operations was not taken very seriously in these years.”

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“This reduction of 'society' to a thin membrane of interactions between private individuals is presented today as the ambition of libertarians and free marketeers. But we should never forget that it was first and above all the dream of Jacobins, Bolsheviks and Nazis: if there is nothing that binds us together as a community or society, then we are utterly…

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