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Institutions Express Economic Power Cycling Into Politics

Following a classical political economy tradition (which Faguet characterizes as a revived, non-Leninist Marxism), institutions are at some level the expression of economic power applied to politics, which then feeds back into economic power in a continuous cycle; treating economic and political spheres as distinct, as much North American political economy does, risks missing the key dynamic of how the world works.

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Speaker

Jean-Paul Faguet

Evidence Quote

classical political economy where economic factors tie up with power and who has power and how that gets expressed in government patterns. And the two kind of feed back to each other all the time

Source

287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of HistorySean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:20:04 AM

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