Excerpts
Barbara Wootton left a trail of incisive, beautifully written books on economics, social science, criminology and public policy (not to mention fiction and her elegantly restrained autobiography, In a World I Never Made), all held together by the leitmotiv of her sustained and unrelenting criticism of so-called experts for their failure to consider the evidence as to how the real world of ordinary people actually works.
This section presents a short collection of quotes subdivided by broad subject.
Equality and inequality, democracy, isms, socialism, consumerism, public policy, donkeys and politicians.
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Social science, social workers and the social services, science and methodology, economics and economists, crime and justice, professions.
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Morality, war and killing, humanism, religion, gender, prejudice, mystiques, opinions and dreams, the environment and cars.
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