It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure. - John Kenneth Galbraith

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

People are the common denominator of progress. So, paucis verbis, no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development. At some stages of development — the stage that India and Pakistan have reached, for example — they are central to the strategy of development. But we are coming to realize, I think, that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.