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What Adam Tooze Learned About the World Last Year

Odd Lots

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The Emergence of Amazon as a Defacto Public Service Provider

One set of institutions that seem to hold up extremely well, weirdly, and people pry to get upset, is like large corporations executed their business extremely well. So you could sort of, like imagine this nexes, where we trust corporations for a sort of governants of things, and then the government supplies the cash so that we have the spending poweri mean, quint essential. Ye, i think t that a super fascinating point, and one of the things i've been thinking about in the last year. And again, i know a year ago wereabout the testing crisis and all this sort of like failure of us. But i guess the crucial thing is not to romanticise it

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