Articles by Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Gandhi’s Quote on Western Civilization
Kwame Anthony Appiah - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
“I think it would be a very good idea.” Like many of the best stories, alas, this one is probably apocryphal; but also, like many of the best stories, it has survived because it has the flavor of truth.
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The Prophet of Maximum Productivity
Kwame Anthony Appiah | New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
14 Jan 2021 issue – We are all Veblenians now. Thorstein Veblen’s maverick economic ideas made him the foremost iconoclast of the Age of Iconoclasts. Armed with two Ph.D.s from Yale and Cornell, sacked by Chicago and Stanford, he was an intellectual giant whose ideas hold after 100 years of his death.
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