"Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to……" — Kim Stanley Robinson
"Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before."
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Kim Stanley Robinson
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31 Quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson
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The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old…
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It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.
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Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each…
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That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
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Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous,…
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