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People want to think of economics as a natural science, like physics, with the comforting reliability of simple-to-understand theories like F=MA. Unfortunately, it isn't. Economics is a social science, and the so-called theories are really social and moral constructs.
— Nick Hanauer
Tags: economics, think, people, science

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The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.
— Nick Hanauer
Tags: will, facts, rich, change
Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.
— Nick Hanauer
Tags: why, who, economics, power
You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.
— Nick Hanauer
Tags: police, society, you, me
I have, oddly, two ski houses - trying to sell one.
— Nick Hanauer
Tags: houses, sell, two, trying
No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.
— Nick Hanauer
Tags: never, matter, drive, great
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