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In one of the most interesting sections of Against Empathy, Bloom describes how he learned about differences between empathy and compassion from Matthieu Ricard, the Buddhist monk sometimes described as “the happiest man on earth.”
Ricard could, on request, empathize with others’ pain, but he found it unpleasant and draining; by contrast, he described compassion meditation as “a warm positive state associated with a strong pro-social motivation.”
In 1919, the economist John Maynard Keynes described the possibility of an Englishman in London using a telephone to order goods from around the world to be delivered to his house by the afternoon.
But the events described above could reverse such policies.
The Whig historian of the nineteenth century Thomas Macaulay described this difference well.
Humanitarian intervention in Kosovo in 1999 was often described as “illegal but legitimate.”
Otto von Bismarck once described the patterns of world history.
The Campaign for Plain English, a lobbying group, has described the Bank’s statements as “worthless, impenetrable waffle.”
Indeed, regardless of what OPEC or its members decide, the vicious cycles described here will support oil prices around the world probably in the range of $70-$90 per barrel.
Newspapers the next day described it as “one of the severest declines the market has ever gone through,” and “the worst money scare since July 1, 1920.”
To the extent that these claims are based on the “nine-dashed line” – embracing some 80% of the South China Sea and described as China’s “historic waters” – the entire international community should reject them out of hand.
Today, China is widely described in Southeast Asia as a bully, disrespectful of others’ opinions, let alone their interests.
Within the US, Trump’s decision to pursue sweeping import tariffs has been described by one industry representative as “the most self-destructive trade act I’ve ever seen.”
A former Turkish diplomat in Iran described the business climate in stark terms: “it is as if Iranians prefer a lose/lose outcome to a win/win one in their dealings with foreign partners.”
Barr’s show was swiftly canceled late last month by the television network ABC, not for anything her “character” said in her show, but for a tweet in which she described Valerie Jarrett, an African-American former adviser to Barack Obama, as the offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood and “Planet of the Apes.”
The measures described can be scaled up if a bigger target becomes necessary.
The system carries the hallmarks of the ancient feudal model described by Harvard’s Richard Pipes in his classic Russia under the Old Regime: it affords a maximum of freedom to the ruler, who delegates tasks to the feudal lords.
Deaths of the Poor and Responsibilities of the RichIn a shocking book of last year entitled " Late Victorian Holocausts ," Mike Davis described the British Empire's attitude to famines in India and elsewhere.
That disaster – a return to levels of inequality not seen since the late nineteenth to early twentieth century – is amply described in Piketty’s book.
Both banks are actively researching the subject, and their views might best be described as Maoist, in the “let a hundred flowers bloom” sense.
Bush was described by The Economist as “obsessed by the idea of being a transformational president; not just a status-quo operator like Bill Clinton.”
In the atomic and subatomic world, gravity is irrelevant compared to what else is going on, all of which can be described by quantum theories.
Missing AmericaBERLIN – Madeleine Albright, the former US secretary of state, once described the United States as the “indispensable nation.”
Hang Seav Heang, 28, described the defendant as a gentle man, a good father.
She had been feeling sick for about two months, and when she went to a health clinic, she described symptoms such as weight loss, fatigue, shortness of breath, fever, night sweats, chills, loss of appetite, and pain when breathing and coughing.
The colonialism described in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, and Franz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Maskswas insidious and potent.
It was the tsunami, caused by the largest earthquake ever to strike Japan, that killed more than 16,000 people, destroyed or damaged roughly 125,000 buildings, and left the country facing what its prime minister described as its biggest crisis since World War II.
Help for poor countries in Africa and elsewhere to adapt to climate change should not be described as charity or aid, but rather as compensation for damages being imposed on the poorest people on the planet.
In today’s crisis, muddling through would be a recipe for a continuation of the crisis and secular stagnation of the type once described by Alvin Hansen, a contemporary of Keynes.
The first, and simplest, justification simply assumes that the “powers that be” (the ultimate recipients of their work) are “benevolent despots” in the mold that John Maynard Keynes described (though Keynes did not consider the British bureaucrats of his time to be despots).
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