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Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption.
Arundhati Roy
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Arundhati Roy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: September 24
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Suzanna Arundhati Roy
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