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Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations [April 22, 2022]
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Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations [April 22, 2022]

Amartya Sen on how to change the world, The US' Upward Mobility Problem; The Portuguese: Pioneers of globalization; How Amsterdam Became a Bicycle Paradise

Abhas K. Jha
Apr 22
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Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations [April 22, 2022]
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  1. Read: Amartya Sen: “Learning is always an act of imagination” The philosopher and Nobel Prize winner on identity, decolonization and how to change the world. [via the New Statesman]

  2. Read: The Upward Mobility Problem: Faith in four-year college as the path to success is waning, and researchers, policymakers, and students alike are asking: are there other ways to build a good life? [via the Harvard Magazine]

  3. Listen: The Portuguese: Pioneers of globalization. Portugal’s commercial dominance of large swathes of the world lasted little more than a century but the images, transmissions, and trades that it engendered left a significant and long-lasting influence. [via Engelsberg Ideas]

  4. Watch: How Amsterdam Became a Bicycle Paradise [via Bloomberg Quicktake]

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