The irony is that the ‘man of system’ in the early twenty-first century is all too likely to be an economist, but what we need more of today is men and women who are not wedded to an overbearing system of thought. This book is an attempt not only to create them, but also to give them permission to act and speak more freely. I hope it will free you slightly from the modern rationalist straitjacket, and help you understand that many problems might be solved if we abandoned the rationalist obsession with universal, context-free laws. Once free of this constraint, you might have the freedom to
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