Цитаты из книги Экономика для общего блага

All these influences create narratives that, however valid empirically provide (weak) excuses for less ethical behavior.

This is the world of "self-fulfilling prophecies" and "multiple equilibria"...

... the market is sometimes made a scapegoat for our own hypocrisy. Even when it neither strengthens nor weakens our social bonds, the market becomes a mirror to our souls that reflects realities of our societies, facets of our aspirations, and preferences that we would rather conceal - from ourselves as well as others.

Who would really regret the disappearance of the strongest social bonds that have ever existed: those between a slave and his master, between a wife and her all-powered husband, between a worker and a monopsonistic employer, or - to return to a lighter example - the bond between our villager and his not very talented baker?

When the flame of indignation burns brightly, people use moral arguments to impose their own value judgements and reduce the freedom of others.

Around the world, the supremacy of the market is regarded with widespread distrust, sometimes accepted only with an outrage laced with fatalism.

Even so, the market economy has achieved only partial victory, because it has won neither hearts or minds.

We must all take responsibility for our limited understanding of economic phenomena, our desire to believe what we want to believe, our relative intellectual laziness, and our cognitive biases.