Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize-winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver a fundamental challenge to this insight, arguing that markets harm as well as help us. As long as there is profit to be made, sellers will systematically exploit our...
She hated this land and its men - big, crude, violent, reminding her more of animals than human beings. But she had no money, no future, and no choice except to belong. A saloon named Avalon seemed the worst place to start, but it was also the only place that would give her the chance. The fact that she could try surprised her. And the fact that she did too well almost destroyed her.
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