"Anyway that's a large part of what economics……" — Kim Stanley Robinson
"Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful"
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Kim Stanley Robinson
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31 Quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson
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The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you…
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That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
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