The
Crisis of Global Capitalism.
"
. . . [P]eople can get rich in financial markets and
powerful in politics by propounding false theories or self-fulfilling
prophesies."1a
MAIMONIDES
HERZL
BUBER
"
. . . I devised an ideal type of boom/bust sequence. . .
There is nothing determinate about the ideal case . . . but reflexivity
. . . is
the rule and it is ignored by the prevailing wisdom."1b*
"Everybody
must look out for his or her own interests and moral
scruples can become an encumbrance in a dog-eat-dog world."1c
GNOSTICS
HERZL
RAND
"Why
bother about the truth when a proposition does not need to be
true to be effective? Why be honest when it is success,
not honesty or virtue that
gains people's respect? . . . We are ready to enter the Age of
Fallibility."1d
BHAGAVAD GITA
MAIMONIDES
GANDHI
KING
Editor's note: The notion of an
amoral financial market where falsehood can be tolerated because
humans are fallible stands in sharp contrast with the moral and
ethical views of the giants of philosophy. See, for example,
BUDDHA
MAIMONIDES
SPINOZA
KANT
EINSTEIN
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