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If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, t...more

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I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

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Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable pre...more

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The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril