archipelago

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It's an archipelago of over 7,000 islands and a very poor country.

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a group of many islands in a large body of water

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noun

a group of many islands in a large body of water

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noun

a group of many islands in a large body of water

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It's an archipelago of over 7,000 islands and a very poor country.

There is a gulag archipelago, Guantanamo, but it contains only 46 prisoners now. Outside it, hundreds of millions of people live pretty free lives in the western world.

Nevertheless they do so by means of some non-price, more often than not hierarchical, mechanism!The firm, in this view, operates outside the market; as an island within the market archipelago.

But before long I got enticed into even more abstract realms, investigating problems where the basic actors— "residually modular Galois representations," "cohomology of moduli schemes," "dynamical systems on homogeneous spaces," things like that—were impossible to talk about outside the archipelago of seminar halls and faculty lounges that stretches from Oxford to Princeton to Kyoto to Paris to Madison, Wisconsin, where I'm a professor now. When I tell you this stuff is thrilling, and meaningful, and beautiful, and that I'll never get tired of thinking about it, you may just have to believe me, because it takes a long education just to get to the point where the objects of study rear into view.