“Markets are not perfect, which is true even for rationally regulated markets. Nevertheless, over the last thousand years every attempt to organize sizeable societies without important dependence on markets has generated its own failure …”

New millennium, An Enjoyable Life Puzzling Over Modern Finance Theory, 2009

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