"Anyway that's a large part of what economics is- people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the number up, which they have. Economics is just like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful"
-from Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
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