Quotes by Francis Fukuyama - Page 1

I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure.
Francis Fukuyama / Political Scientist
Tenure
Professor
Rid
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For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society
Francis Fukuyama / Political Scientist
Capitalism
Mobile
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In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists.
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Nation Building
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The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared
Francis Fukuyama / Political Scientist
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Prosperity
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Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation
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Economics
Individual
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To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard
Francis Fukuyama / Political Scientist
Feelings
Mean
Self
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I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it would be crazy to trade that in for something else.
Francis Fukuyama / Political Scientist
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Life Good Crazy
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The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.
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Common
Organization
Political
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In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.
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Organization
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It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master
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Self
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Be afraid of the Chinese. I mean, the Chinese shoot down satellites in space; they hack into Google's computers; the Osama bin Laden people can't make their underwear blow up.
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If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members
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Ethical
Levels
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Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is correct about 80% of the time.
Francis Fukuyama / Political Scientist
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Self
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I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But there are blips. History doesn't proceed in a linear way.
Francis Fukuyama / Political Scientist
Beneficial
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Basically
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The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, MA.
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Unions
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China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second.
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I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country. Neocons think the use of political power can force the pace of change, but ultimately it depends on societies doing it themselves.
Francis Fukuyama / Political Scientist
Democracy
Depends
Force
Happens
Marxist
Modernization
Pace
Political Power
Process
Understanding
Broad
Societies
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Ultimately
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If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms....such a society will be better able to innovate...since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge.
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People
Vision
Working Together
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As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking.
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The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.
Francis Fukuyama / Political Scientist
Academy
Conservative
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Fields
Funeral
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Tenure
Wholesale
Advances
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Costly
Joke
Economists
Generational
Wait
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Valid
Yes
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What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially available to all countries. No underdeveloped country in the Third World is disadvantaged simply because it began the growth process later than Europe, nor are the established industrial powers capable of blocking the development of a latecomer, provided that country plays by the rules of economic liberalism.
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