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The Prince is not a manual for getting ahead: it is a manual for how a government keeps power and protects the lives of its people.

Drawn from what Ada Palmer said

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

What Ada Palmer actually said

  1. Ada Palmer Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas
    It shouldn't It shouldn't be shelved next to How to Win Friends and Influence People because it's a manual not of how to gain power, but of how to keep power.

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