Money, having freed itself from the physical universe, has become number itself, and finance a strange form of mathematical alchemy. - David Orrell

The strength of capitalism does not lie in the neoclassical idea of stability, but in its ability to unleash this creative energy. like a chaotic mathematical system, it is capable of producing surprise.

Adam Smith's invisible hand does exist, but as an emergent property of a complex system. It has a fuzzy tendency to reduce big price discrepancies, but it acts in a rather haphazard way.

There is something intrinsically upside down and counter-intuitive in the relationship between money and happiness.