"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
The Women of September
-
The first expansion team I remember was the New York Mets. I turned 16
the summer they started playing in 1962. They were terrible. They went
40-120, ...
1 day ago
