Words Worth Noting - August 24, 2022

“Economists’ work is often criticized as being ‘useful as a chocolate teapot,’ The Economist magazine wrote.”

Ottawa Citizen October 25, 1997 (though it has occurred to me since that (a) you could eat a chocolate teapot and (b) what’s really wrong with economists’ work isn’t that it’s not useful, it’s that people don’t want to hear about it... but it’s still a lovely metaphor).