“The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people "must" behave.”

—  Ellen Willis

Letter to The New York Times (27 February 1997)
Context: Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people "must" behave.

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