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the amount we’re willing to pay for things often depends, to a large degree, on how fair the price appears to be.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
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Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
“Secret deal”? Perhaps Coke Stevenson felt he wouldn’t dignify the charge by denying it. But dignity was a luxury in a fight with Lyndon Johnson, a luxury too expensive to afford. Perhaps Stevenson had too much pride to deny the charge. Pride was a luxury that an opponent of Lyndon Johnson could not afford. Once Johnson found an issue, true or untr
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
money’s capacity to turn morality into a matter of impersonal arithmetic—and by doing so, to justify things that would otherwise seem outrageous or obscene.
David Graeber • Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded
In The Ethics of Liberty Rothbard explains libertarian anarcho‐capitalism as the only logically coherent implication of the idea of free will and self‐ownership:
Saifedean Ammous • The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
