Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. - John Kenneth Galbraith

I can measure the motions of bodies,” Sir Isaac Newton once observed, “but I cannot measure human folly.” Nor could he do so as regards his own. He was to lose

Men of conservative temperament have long suspected that one thing leads to another.

One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.