When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic. - John Kenneth Galbraith

I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life as a professional economist, so I'm careful that my economics is as it should be. But I have long felt that there's no economic proposition that can't be stated in clear, accessible language. So I try to be right with my fellow economists, but I try to have an audience of any interested, intelligent person.

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.