ROBERT DARNTON ~ THE CASE FOR BOOKS

~ IHNBS ~ Information Has Never Been Stable

~ RLLFC-BTFTTTDTO-BOIBITEM ~ Research Libraries Last For Centuries – Better To Fortify Them Than To Declare Them Obsolete – Because Obsolescence Is Built Into The Electronic Media

~ AT-‘BD’-BTAES ~ All Texts – “Born Digital” – Belong To An Endangered Species

~ TOWDNMHIETPTO ~ The Obsession With Developing New Media Has Inhibited Efforts To Preserve The Old

~ N-IUTBWFTGR-NIIWBTGR ~ News – It Used To Be Written For The General Reader – Now It Is Written By The General Reader

KARL POLANYI ~ THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION

~ ‘ED’GUHPASHOEHQ-TCFHDAMR ~ “Economic Determinism” Greatly Underestimates Human Potential And Strips Humans Of Essential Human Quality – The Capacity For Honour, Decency And Moral Responsibility

~ TBTTHOHIGBLWAIOHWAAITMASIE ~ The Belief That The History Of Humanity Is Governed By Laws Which Are Independent Of Humanity’s Will And Action Is The Most Absurd Superstition In Existence

~ AESTDNCSCINGAFEA ~ Any Economic System That Does Not Consider Social Costs Is Not Giving A Full Economic Accounting

~ HAMNOTSTOPAMWBATLISCAJC ~ Humans Are Motivated Not Only To Secure Their Own Physical And Material Well-Being, But Also To Live In Strong, Cohesive And Just Communities

~ TWNNALF-FMCNHCIBMBATTTTC ~ There Was Nothing Natural About Laissez-Faire – Free Markets Could Never Have Come Into Being Merely By Allowing Things To Take Their Course

~ TMIAACSBOML-DBAFTPCTTEOO ~ “The Market” Is An Artificially Constructed System Based On Man-Made Laws – Designed By And For The Propertied Classes To The Exclusion Of Others

HOWARD GARDNER + MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI + WILLIAM DAMON ~ GOOD WORK ~ 2001

~ HDWKWAPIDGW? ~ How Do We Know Whether A Person Is Doing Good Work?

~ ITFOGW-EAE-AIH-WLAPFASRL-ITAN-E-TIOTC-OB-WS ~ If The Fundamentals Of Good Work – Excellence And Ethics – Are In Harmony – We Lead A Personally Fulfilling And Socially Rewarded Life – If They Are Not – Either – The Individual Or The Community – Or Both – Will Suffer

~ E&E ~ Excellence And Ethics

~ CV ~ Core Values

~ WSSEMWP&P? ~ Why Should Society Entrust Me With Power And Prestige?

~ SOMI ~ Sense Of Moral Identity

~ TMT-OWWCLPITMCWBSTHAOI ~ The Mirror Test – Only When We Can Look Proudly In The Mirror Can We Be Said To Have Affirmed Our Identity

~ TUMT-WWIBLTLIAWIEWTBITWTIH? ~ The Universal Mirror Test – What Would It Be Like To Live In A World If Everyone Were To Behave In The Way That I Have?

~ DFC ~ Deeply Felt Convictions

~ ACEOIIM-PMDFTWLTWNCAWTWNCT ~ A Central Element Of Identity Is Moral – People Must Determine For Themselves What Lines They Will Not Cross And Why They Will Not Cross Them

~ RLICICA-WWA-WWWTA-WWAS-A-WWAFS ~ Rich Lives Include Continuing Internal Conversations About – Who We Are – What We Want To Achieve – Where We Are Successful – And – Where We Are Falling Short

~ TQOLITFWDOWWFAWTDGWU-CC ~ The Quality Of Life In The Future Will Depend On Whether We Find A Way To Do Good Work Under – Changing Conditions