"Economics is a science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses."
Lionel Robbins
In my latest National Post column I say you don't get the poor nice things, including trendy ones like organic food, by price controls that crush entrepreneurs.
“in all their actions all men do in fact aim at what they think good.”
Aristotle The Politics
"mathematical economics is what is called in criminal circles 'a racket.'"
Stephen Leacock "Through a Glass Darkly” in On the Front Line of Life
"He fell so hard for her, he even lost his balance at the bank."
Kirk Kirkpatrick, quoted in The Write File Quarterly Issue #5, Summer 1995
In my latest National Post column I ask whether the purpose of "uniting the right" in Alberta was to implement conservative policies or to bury them.
"it is characteristic of political philosophers that they take a sombre view of the human situation: they deal in darkness. Human life in their writings appears, generally not as a feast or even as a journey, but as a predicament..."
Michael Oakeshott “Introduction to Leviathan” in Rationalism in politics and other essays
In my latest National Post column I wonder how federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau can say such dumb stuff and how we're meant to communicate intelligently with him if he does.