Sentence of the Week: Economics

I think more social anthropologists should be explaining economics.

"She brings an unusual credential to financial journalism: a PhD in social anthropology. Anthropologists look for holistic descriptions of human cultures that link different parts of a social structure. She has done that by illuminating a basic truth: Apart from natural disasters, the great events that alter human history are, however complicated, the work of human beings. In the end, economic forces, the tides of history and such are just manifestations of human foibles, often encouraged by dysfunctional cultures such as the one on Wall Street."

Meet the Geniuses Who Lost Our Money
by Robert Kaiser
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/07/AR2009080701894.html