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A world where women dominated Wall Street would have had to be so completely different from the actual world that to describe it wouldn’t tell us anything about the actual world. Thousands of years of history would need to be rewritten in order to lead up to the hypothetical moment that an investment bank named Lehman Sisters could handle its over-exposure to an overheated American housing market.

a quote from Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?

—p.159 Mom's Invisible Hand (2016) (158) by Katrine Marçal 5 years, 9 months ago

A world where women dominated Wall Street would have had to be so completely different from the actual world that to describe it wouldn’t tell us anything about the actual world. Thousands of years of history would need to be rewritten in order to lead up to the hypothetical moment that an investment bank named Lehman Sisters could handle its over-exposure to an overheated American housing market.

a quote from Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?

—p.159 Mom's Invisible Hand (2016) (158) by Katrine Marçal 5 years, 9 months ago