There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The Altruist in Politics is a popular book by Benjamin Cardozo. endstream For the activity, the push, the vigor of our modern life, his substitute is a life aimless and unbroken. 8 0 obj Thousands of years ago it was heard and acted on; and, in the lapse of centuries, its reverberations have but swelled in volume.
The reason that we live in good times is that markets give people a selfish incentive to seek to perform actions that maximize total utility across all humans in the relevant economy: namely, they get paid for their efforts. Without this incentive, people would gravitate to choosing actions that maximized their own individual utility, finding local optima that are not globally optimal. 10 0 obj Search for Library Items Search for Lists Search for Contacts Search for a Library. endobj Benjamin Cardozo's The Altruist in Politics consists of 1 parts for ease of reading. So today, amid the buried hopes and buried projects of the past, the doctrine of communism still lives in the minds of men.
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"The more bitterly we feel," writes George Eliot, "the more bitterly we feel the folly, ignorance, neglect, or self seeking of those who at different times have wielded power, the stronger is the obligation we lay on ourselves to beware lest we also, by a too hasty wresting of measures which seem to promise immediate relief, make a worse time of it for our own generation, and leave a bad inheritance for our children." <> stream That cry for communism is no new one in the history of mankind.