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Societies are not trapped by their pasts and freely borrow ideas and institutions from each other.

However, neither rule of law nor political accountability exists in contemporary China any more than they did in dynastic China.

In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists.

Europe's exhausted elites were ready to concede both liberal democracy and redistributive welfare states to ensure social peace.

Most human beings, in other words, would rather fight than starve.19

But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.

National identity is frequently formed in deliberate opposition to other groups and therefore serves to perpetuate conflict.

I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure.

For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society

Joseph Stalin was said to have contemptuously asked, "How many divisions has the pope?

For Hegel, by contrast, liberal society is a reciprocal and equal agreement among citizens to mutually recognize each other

Putting one's parents out to pasture in a nursing home has very deep historical roots in Western Europe.

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared

When a rural Greek is hospitalized, relatives are in constant attendance to keep a check on the doctor and the treatment he prescribes.

I THE IDEA OF TRUST The Improbable Power of Culture in the Making of Economic Society

Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation