Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules …

Gloria Steinem
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Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important. ✨ Gloria Steinem (2012). Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender, p.364, Open Road Media
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