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Jiang says Freud protected his Frankist patrons and was rewarded with fame, British protection, and institutional spread.
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Patronage
Bureaucratic elites behave like parasites: they feed off an institutional host, then switch to another host when the first one dies.
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Bureaucratic elites behave like parasites: they feed off an institutional host, then switch to another host when the first one dies.
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Jiang says elite patronage networks protect one another, allowing administrators to bankrupt one organization and move to another.
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The biographical hypothesis treats Spyridon Putin's role as cook for Lenin and Stalin as evidence of access, trust, and possible embeddedness in Soviet/KGB patronage networks.
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Freud had a practical incentive to change his story because the fathers of the women he treated were paying his bills and would not accept being blamed for their daughters' trauma.
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Jiang offers a material explanation for Freud's reversal: Freud's patients were young women, but their fathers were often paying him.
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Napoleon's military distinctiveness was political patronage: he identified powerful patrons and used favors to advance his career.
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Merchant elites such as the Medici face a legitimacy problem because they cannot claim battlefield honor or priestly divine authority, so patronage of art becomes a substitute source of status.
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"Okay, so do you understand? So when the person is talking about his dream, you can now make suggestions. That person will believe whatever..."
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"Um, as we just said, are there less teacher and less professor or like, like most people would choose to quite quitting, then who..."
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"You know, okay. That's a really good question. The problem is they don't think like that. Don't think about how efficient is my organization...."
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"...another organization to bankrupt. Okay? What matters is to maintain their patronage, the political networks. So they all help each other. Okay? Does that..."
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"told the New York Times interview that his grandfather, Spyridon Putin, was the personal cook to both Vladimir Putin, sorry, Vladimir Lenin, as well..."
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"And if you're powerful, then you can start to do favors for the people. You can promote their careers. You can also save their..."
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"A simple explanation, which a simple explanation is, he may be treating his patients who are young women, but who's paying the bills? The..."
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"But all women want is attention to be tilted on. And that's why women hate civilization, first of all because they're not smart and..."
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"Well, they wouldn't be very happy, okay? So we can understand why, at the end of the day, Freud decided that he needed to..."
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"Let's call it a levy. They en masse. So let's get everyone to join the military, so as to dilute the influence of nobility...."
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"The vow we talked about, okay? Without the vow, there's no way Napoleon could have won his battles. The vow is probably the greatest..."
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"is that because these city -states were always at war with each other, everyone was a participant in history. Remember, if you are in..."
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