Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible. - Paul Ormerod

Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media.

By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.

The study of human societies and economics is of great importance, and it is not the purpose of the book to suggest otherwise. Rather it is to argue that conventional economics offers a very misleading view of how the world actually operates, and that it needs to be replaced.