"Anyway, that's in large part 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."
A character in Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
(Not So) Happy Holidays
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The holidays are not so happy for San Francisco sports fans, as the Niners
failed to make the playoffs and look like a team in search of an answer.
The...
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