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When a man does not know what harbor he is making, no wind is right.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
When a man does not know what harbor he is making, no wind is right.
Such imaginary constructs are of course what scientists refer to as “models,” and there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with them. Actually I think a fair case can be made that we cannot think without them. The problem with such models — at least, it always seems to happen when we model something called “the market” — is that, once created, we have a tendency to treat them as objective realities, or even fall down before them and start worshiping them as gods. “We must obey the dictates of the market!”