Sublime

people are not as selfish as economists thought them to be,

What finer characteristics could a system like capitalism seek in a worker?

in the real world, there is no such thing as an externality.

This limits the ideas of what we see as possible and many, including me, internalize the “worldly wisdom” that John Maynard Keynes once pointed out, “that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”⁠

Gary Becker, a University of Chicago economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1992, has noted (borrowing from George Bernard Shaw) that “economy is the art of making the most of life.”

Mais, loin de tout déterminisme ou de tout manichéisme, il en dévoile les dimensions multiples et contradictoires : la passion de l’égalité, qui fonde la démocratie, peut se retourner contre la liberté pour frayer la voie au despotisme.