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On the rhetoric of Economics

“The average … economist is white, middle-class, male, swamped withliterature to absorb or referee, intimidated by his superiors and colleagues,goaded along by two creeds - ‘publish or perish’ and ‘conform or perish’ - and unhappy with the state of current economics. In addition, the typical graduate student - also male, middle class, white - believes [...]

Spinoza!

“Nous ne désirons pas les choses parce qu’elles sont bonnes, mais nous les déclarons bonnes parce que nous les désirons.”
Spinoza

Bertolt Brecht, Alfabet (1934)

Reicher Mann und armer Mann
Standen da und sahn sich an.
Und der Arme sagte bleich:
Wär ich nicht arm, wärst du nicht reich.