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Where is my mind ?

	Tant que nous limitons nos spéculations aux apparences sensibles des objets, sans entrer dans des investigations sur leur nature et leurs opérations réelles, nous sommes protégés de toutes les difficultés et aucune question ne saurait jamais nous embarrasser.
David Hume, Traité de la nature humaine C I T A T I O N S La citation du moment « Our estimates of the pace of economic growth may be way off. For example: back 1987 the Encyclopedia Britannica Corporation asked me to write an article, offering to pay either $2000 or an Encyclopedia Britannica. I took the encyclopedia, and thought myself well-compensated. We gave it away to the library when we moved last year. Wikipedia is better. Does that mean that everyone in the United States now has the equivalent of $2000 more of wealth because they have access for pennies to something I was willing to pay $2000 for? No. I am a high-value demander of encyclopedias. Nevertheless, previous generations would have been willing to pay—their rich did pay—fortunes for things we get essentially for free, whether it is access to Wikipedia or the ability to watch Hamlet in our living rooms whenever we please. You can argue that that is a big deal, that—properly measured, counting the things we get for free, there has been no productivity slowdown. That is an open research topic. » J. Bradford DeLong, The Budget And Macroeconomic Policy, 2012