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The very name of my subject, economics, suggests economizing or maximizing. But Political Economy has gone a long way beyond home economics.


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PAUL RICœUR Speaking personally as a filmmaker, I think encoded in Bond are a series of values about Britain, ab...
PAUL GREENGRASS Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from ...
PAUL RUDNICK I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little mo...
PAUL THEROUX Brighton gives me the heebie-jeebies. When I'm near the seafront I can't sleep, I can't ...
PAUL MCGANN I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a ...
PAUL NURSE I thought I was a hippie, bro. I wore Birkenstocks every day. I went to a Christian high school, so ...
PAUL WALKER I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walk...
PAUL WALKER They get the faceless bureaucrats in Brussels and Strasbourg who have ruled and told the Brits how t...
PAUL MANAFORT