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The Coming Greater Depression of the 2020s

ARTICLE : THE COMING DEPRESSION OF THE 2020s LINK OF THE ARTICLE :  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/greater-depression-covid19-headwinds-by-nouriel-roubini-2020-04 I choose an   opinion article published the 28th of April 2020 by Project Syndicate "The World's opinion page". It was written by  Nouriel Roubini, Professor of Economics at New York University's Stern School of Business .   First and foremost , the purpose of the article is to propound a rather more detailed hypothesis or analysis of the economical consequences that the current health crisis is about to bring. As we all know the spread of the coronavirus in the entire world, has caused almost a worldwide recession of all non activities. As a consequence, the economic activity has known a big  downturn since the beginning of the quarantines although telecommuting has been a convenient solution for some lines of business. Additionally, in this article, Nouriel Roubini...
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THE MYTH OF THE NOBLE/GOOD SAVAGE

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          POST 1: THE MYTH OF THE NOBLE/GOOD SAVAGE                The term "the noble savage" brings us back to the 17th and 18th centuries , when the autochthones and natives embodied the ideal of the intrinsic goodness due to the fact that they were not considered as civilized communities. Therefore indigenes could not have been "corrupted" or depraved by the latent flaws and depravity of civilisation .                   This myth takes its origins from John Dryden's heroic play The Conquest of Granada (1672) in which this expression appears for the first time but it only became a concrete concept of ennoblement  during the 18th century romanticism with the turn of phrase "nature's gentleman". Centuries later, as this conception is promptly associated to Rousseau's premise about the state of nature , even if he never used this exact words to...
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ARTICLE - "End of la Zad? (...) "

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