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The struggling nations throughout the third world are contemporary examples of this tragic state of affairs.

• Noah Coburn, Bazaar Politics: Power & Pottery in an Afghan Market Town (Stanford University Press, 2011): "When Coburn analyzed how power was exercised in Istalif, he found that no one was truly in charge."

Capitalism, which has organized economies more successfully than any other system, is laden with imperfections.

• Geoffrey C. Ward, A Disposition To Be Rich: How a Small-Town Pastor’s Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012): on the Bernie Madoff of the 1880s, by his grandson.