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   "text": "The constraints that define economic theory are not incidental empirical regularities; each is a direct consequence of the biological and cognitive limits of Homo sapiens.",
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   "text": "Every major school of economic thought shares one unspoken premise: that the acting subject is a biological human being with finite cognition, finite lifespan, finite information processing capacity and non trivial incentives to engage in strategic deception.",
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