Date: 2010
"I underestimated the speed and power of Zombie ideas."
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Date: 2010
"Still, given the overwhelming evidence that social mobility in the United States is low by standards of developed countries and decreasing steadily, the task of reanimating this zombie idea looks like a difficult one."
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Date: 2010
"Perhaps if the political left is willing to return to class politics (something the right-wing advocates of trickle-down have never abandoned) it might at least find a way to drive this zombie idea out of the assumed background of political debate."
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Date: 2010
"With the national exemplars of comprehensive privatization in disarray, and its advocates in full retreat, it seems unlikely that this zombie idea will return from the grave any time soon."
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Date: 2010
"The zombie ideas discussed in this book are similarly resilient."
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Date: 2010
"The Global Financial Crisis gives the economics profession the chance to bury the zombie ideas that led the world into crisis, and to produce a more realistic, humble, and above all socially useful body of thought."
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Date: March 24, 2011
"It [neurology] has all the fascination of a horror story--the Jekyll of the mind bound for life to the Hyde of the brain."
preview | full record— McGinn, Colin (b. 1950)
Date: September 2, 2011
"When we fight an urge, it feels like a strenuous effort, as if there were a homunculus in the head that physically impinged on a persistent antagonist."
preview | full record— Pinker, Steven (b. 1954)
Date: September 2, 2011
"The 'will' in willpower is not some mysterious 'free will,' a ghost in the machine that can do as it pleases, but a part of the machine itself."
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