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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy.
[The] great embarrassing fact that haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. More than anything else, the endless recitation of the myth of barter, employed much like an incantation, is the economists’ way of fending off any possibility of having to confront it.