Bishwajit Chowdhury

“easy credit has been used as a palliative throughout history by governments that are unable to address the deeper anxieties of the middle class directly”
― Raghuram G. Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten The World Economy

“A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.”
― Amartya Sen

“Perpetual Peace,” Kant laid out measures that would discourage leaders from dragging their countries into war.20 Together with international commerce, he recommended representative republics (what we would call democracies), mutual transparency, norms against conquest and internal interference, freedom of travel and immigration, and a federation of states that would adjudicate disputes between them.”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

“Ludwig von Mises put it centuries later, “If the tailor goes to war against the baker, he must henceforth bake his own bread.”)”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress