Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. September 26, 1949
Birthday: September 26
One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
source: "Other Economists in the Room" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2009.
topic: Philosophy, Order, People, Guilt Free