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“He wondered how much had really changed. Mike Webster had gone mad and died. Junior Seau had gone mad and died. How many more players were out there? The league had embraced BU’s researchers and given them money. When the NFL didn’t like the message, it cast BU aside and picked another partner and shelled out more money.”
― Mark Fainaru-Wada, League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth

“A market—any market—requires that government make and enforce the rules of the game. In most modern democracies, such rules emanate from legislatures, administrative agencies, and courts. Government doesn’t “intrude” on the “free market.” It creates the market. The”
― Robert B. Reich, Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power—and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“Markets need rules for determining the degree to which economic power can be concentrated without damaging the system.”
― Robert B. Reich, Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few