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Book cover for Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
We have some sympathy for the idea that people’s choices are coherent, in the sense of being thought out rather than a collection of random acts of whimsy. It is both patronizing and wrong-headed, in our view, to assume people must have ...more
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Anand Giridharadas
“How can there be anything wrong with trying to do good? The answer may be: when the good is an accomplice to even greater, if more invisible, harm.”
Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

N.K. Jemisin
“But there are none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them—even if, in truth, their victims couldn’t care less about such pettiness and have moved on. Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.”
N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

N.K. Jemisin
“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”
N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
tags: home

Abhijit V. Banerjee
“It is both patronizing and wrong-headed, in our view, to assume people must have screwed up just because we might have behaved differently. And yet society routinely overrules people’s choices, especially if they are poor, supposedly for their own good,”
Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

N.K. Jemisin
“I think,” Hoa says slowly, “that if you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back.”
N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky
tags: love

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