“A taste is almost defined as a preference about which you do not argue — de gustibus non est disputandum.”

— Albert O. Hirschman

A taste about which you argue, with others or yourself, ceases ipso facto being a taste – it turns into a value.
Rival Views of Market Society and Other Recent Essays (1992), Ch. 6. Against Parsimony.

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German-American economist; member of the French Resistance 1915–2012

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