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.
Francis FukuyamaChina 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.
Francis FukuyamaNeoclassical 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 FukuyamaEconomic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation
Francis FukuyamaAs 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.
Francis Fukuyama