So glad you liked this! :) I'm relieved I managed to make this quote somehow important in the story, because when it first popped up it seemed so sudden and out of place, that's why I was so freaked out. I couldn't resist the language geekery note. It took my friend half an hour to convince me to put the English version in the text, not the German one. I really feel like the English translation is extremely inadequate. But, then again, I'm obsessive, we know that.

And because Stiglitz is so badass. ;)

I'm not surprised. Guess who taught me this quote? My very marxist mother. I guess it says a lot about me that this is one of my favourite quotes. ;)