[H]ousing prices had doubled by 2005 in 10 years time, which would have made sense if incomes had also increased substantially, but they didn't. - John Komlos

Wealth is... political power... and that's how we got from a democracy, to an oligarchy, to a plutocracy. Economists forgot completely about the need for countervailing power... and the oligarchs have taken over...

Anthropometric history... has the advantage of having an abundant evidential basis beginning with the seventeenth century... This approach acknowledges... the inherent multidimensionality of the concept "" and asserts that the several dimensions might not move synchronously, and therefore they ought not to be collapsed into a single indicator...

[E]conomics ought to aspire to... a just society... in which compassion is as important as efficiency, if not more so.