Money is a token of power, economics is politics, banking is about deciding what does and does not get done, and foreign trade is a thin veneer over the older system of colonial tribute.

Small wonder the marginalists shy away from honest descriptions of the political economy. They lack a language to describe virtually everything important about virtually every important part of human economic behavior.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.