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“Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.”
“People want to think of economics as a natural science, like physics, with the comforting reliability of simple-to-understand theories like F=MA. Unfortunately, it isn't. Economics is a social scie...”
“The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mo...”