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• The first of then is drawn from a word of a surprising big authority, Winston Churchill, paraphrasing just what I already cited above: 'capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the others'. In the light of what we have read it is not surprising that Chang's criticism is of free-market capitalism, and not all kinds of capitalism.


• Second: we should build our new economic system on the recognition that human rationality is severely limited.


• Third: while acknowledging that we are not selfless angels, we should build a system that brings out the best, rather than worst, in people.


• Fourth: we should stop believing that people are always paid what they ‘deserve’.


• Fifth: we need to take ‘making things’ more seriously.


• Sixth: we need to strike a better balance between finance and ‘real’ activities.


• Seventh: government needs to become bigger and more active.


• Eighth: the world economic system needs to ‘unfairly’ favour developing countries.



Who could dispute these? Every one of them is worth pondering and referring to Chang's argumentation throughout the 23 stone hard pieces of text in his book. No way of avoiding full five stars.
I myself in front of a completely different present view of the state of my country's economy compared to Chang's am planning to cook up a new utopistic general economic theory. I have decided to base it on only two corner stones: Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and Keynes's General Theory. Keeping strictly to these two. Being ready to mend and change, if trying to present anything in conflict with these. Now having read Chang's 23 Things, I have decided to ad this book as the third corner stone to my utopy. Three corner stones for an utopistic structure are more than enough, particularly as the structure is ready done, lacking just the start, as says a wisecracking proverb of my homestead Savo.
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1. To point out what the word "philosophy" means.


2. To explain the nature of reflective or philosophic thinking.


3. To give a general view of the main problems in philosophy.


4. To give account of some of the most important doctrines in philosophy.


5. To indicate the relation of philosophy to other sciences.


6. To show that the study of philosophy is of value to us all.

"Really brilliant text. Although on the level of high culture, yet understandable to any reader. Reading this you feel as being on higher than at ground level, although feet on solid ground but you slightly higher as if somewhat grown, brought up, as indeed you are. And your vocabulary increases tremendously. With grand delight, I continue., "

And the strong grip of the author continues through all the topics of this text.

6. Third party sketches Zhukovsky is totally unfamiliar, even now I do not remember the details of it without repeated reference in their comments or most the author's text.

12. The last essay, an article of Hypertext by Alexander Rakov. What can I say about that? It seriously is a text of which I did not understand anything, nothing sincerely, although I am daily producing literally dozens of hypertexts as in this review, too. Now I remember a wisdom of the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the most renowned philosopher of the last century: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” ― It is at the end of his main work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

1. It should be possible not only to save as a highlight a word, but also the explanation that the dictionary gives to it.


2. Another even more serious lack is that I cannot get my markings as one file for a possible further elaboration or repeated study of text /words as it is the case with My Clippings in my 'gray Kindle'. This is in my opinion a very big drawback. See my page and you will understand why.