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Ray Oldenburg • The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
But Britain and the USA saw another Germany in the smouldering ashes of the Second Reich. The seeds of democracy and economic prosperity that had been sown by Bismarck had led to the slow and tender growth of a different national vision for Germany, one that would find its identity and its place amongst the nations of the world through trade, stabi
... See moreKatja Hoyer • Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire
He was responsible for thirteen bridges, two tunnels, 637 miles of highways, 658 playgrounds, ten giant public swimming pools, seventeen state parks, and dozens of new or renovated city parks. He cleared three hundred acres of city land and constructed towers that contained 28,400 new apartments. He built Lincoln Center, the United Nations, Shea St
... See moreAnthony Flint • Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
En 1985, dans un livre intitulé En sortir ou pas, Jacques Delors entonnait l’hymne de la « bataille économique joyeuse et sauvage ». Il y condamnait le système de protection sociale, jugé « rigide et démesuré ». Il exaltait « des réalités aussi souveraines et immuables que des étoiles dans la nuit » : la compétition, l’entreprise et le marché. Il a
... See moreLudivine Bantigny • Révolution (French Edition)
Some kinds of property, they insisted, were simply not meant for everyone. On some kibbutzim, the debate that the issue evoked was no less vociferous or acrimonious than the heated debate in the Knesset. Several kibbutzim settled on a compromise position; members could keep some of the reparations that they received, but the rest would be deposited
... See moreDaniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Germans talk about the phenomenon of das Verschwinden der Zukunft, the disappearance of the future, and a widening gulf between what people hope for and what they think is likely to happen.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Le premier membre du noyau dur des néolibéraux à se détourner de l’opposition à l’intégration économique européenne n’est pas Röpke, qui reste un farouche opposant, mais un employé du ministère d’Erhard, Alfred Müller-Armack. Né en 1901, Müller-Armack est un contemporain de la première génération des néolibéraux. Membre du parti nazi à partir de 19
... See moreQuinn Slobodian • Les Globalistes: Une histoire intellectuelle du néolibéralisme (French Edition)
Lors d’un débat en janvier 2018, leur porte-parole pour l’environnement, Rainer Kraft, accusa tapageusement tous les autres partis de pratiquer du « vaudou éco-populiste », en ciblant plus particulièrement les Verts, soupçonnés de chercher à établir « une économie socialiste planifiée », sous couvert d’actions de protection climatique18.
Andreas Malm • Fascisme fossile: L'extrême droite, l'énergie, le climat (French Edition)
an unchanged consumer demand will generate a 200 percent decline in the demand for capital goods.