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Book cover for The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy
in a free economy, companies are disciplined in what they can charge by their competitors and by consumers’ willingness and ability to pay. In monetary terms, that means that businesses, in any industry, could only raise prices so ...more
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“It’s not the rats who first abandon a sinking ship. It’s the crew members who know how to swim.”
Antonio Garcia Martinez, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

“The Saturday Review declared that it is much easier to fix price ceilings than to make certain that there actually will be goods available at such prices. Once government fixes prices it is forced into the position of seeing to it that the owners of goods do not withhold them from sale and that manufacturers and farmers continue production. This amounts to nothing less than industrial conscription.”
Robert Lindsay Schuettinger, Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation

Jessica Nordell
“The individual who acts with bias engages with an expectation instead of reality. That expectation is assembled from the artifacts of culture: headlines and history books, myths and statistics, encounters real and imagined, and selective interpretations of reality that confirm prior beliefs. Biased individuals do not see a person. They see a person-shaped daydream.”
Jessica Nordell, The End of Bias: What the New Science of Overcoming Bias Teaches Us About Transforming Our Lives, Our Companies, Our World

“If something seems completely doomed, just give it a little more time. Worst case scenario, you get to be right. Just find out for sure.”
Jon Bois

“Engineers can prove that a bumblebee, with its heavy body and little bitty wings, can't fly. But nobody tells the bumblebees ... and they fly just fine.”
Bill Bowerman

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