Sentences with phrase «least in a complex society»

Moreover, a properly governed free market is indeed an important form of economic organization, at least in a complex society, and reliance on it would be impossible if the resulting differences in distribution were canceled.

Not exact matches

I think we have to look at intent and effect — religion, at least in the modern era, creates complex explanations to (continue to) deceive, and does real damage to individuals and society, whereas pop fiction creates elaborate expanations and plots to entertain.

Just as the relationships between sport and society are more complex than one might think possible, so the place of sport in student minds over the past 30 years is at least equally complex.

Alcohol has been around for at least 10,000 years, but recent advances in chemical analysis of old pots reveal that other psychoactive drugs were present at the dawn of the first complex societies some 5000 years ago in the ancient Middle East.

«Even in the least complex human societies, the scale of collective action is greater and presumably more critical for survival and reproduction than in most other mammalian societies,» Smith said.

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