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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: How Capitalism Works – and How it Fails

ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library

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Economist or Sociologist?

In any good university, ivele university in this country, the economist will make three s as much money as a sos sociologist. Power does not lie in society any more in the sphere of politics. It who has more power? Ah, the presint of the united states or the c o of golman sacks? There's no doubt that the answer is the latter. And why does economist have power? Because the economist has access to the financial engineers which create those boxes called collateralizedd lications. They like to have financial economists write articles saying that this kind of endeavor is creating more efficiencies in the world economy. So when that gets published in the americal

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