People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.