A society in which each person is hell bent on maximizing his or her own utility, may therefore have declining overall utility. - David Orrell

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

The invisible hand is an emergent property of this system, which never reaches an optimal equilibrium, but instead is fundamentally dynamic and unstable, with complex effects on society.

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