"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
Ohtani Inflation
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I'm not a Dodgers fan. When the Pittsburgh Pirates beat them three
straight games, shutting them out twice, I was elated. I made sure to
watch the rep...
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