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always amazed how some people are expert in everything, pretty common among economists. Meanwhile we learn that the individual is an invention of the Christian tradition and the idea of nationalism roots also in Garibaldi (!). I made my day.

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(a) Don't blame me, blame Larry Siedentop. (b) Garibaldi was clearly a nationalist (of the liberal variety), I don't think this is in dispute. (c) Of course I know everything... or at least, a bit about everything... but that comes from Social and Political Sciences, not economics. "You can see the world clearly, or see it whole," as someone once said.

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