"Greed is usually just the other guy’s self-interest. Or else it is the desire to keep more of your own money instead of turning it over to liberal politicians."

Charles C. Heath, The Blessings of Liberty

In my latest National Post column I try to make sense of the Canadian oil industry's apparent plan to win friends and influence people by agreeing that it's destroying the planet.

Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy - USA, aka EFN-USA, have also posted a positive review and helpful links to The Environment: A True Story. I really appreciate everyone who's helping make people aware of the documentary because the topic is so important and the time is ripe for a challenge to the conventional wisdom.

Thanks to the American Institute for Economic Research for a very favourable review of The Environment: A True Story. It's extremely gratifying to see that the word seems to be getting out, including now over 3700 YouTube views.

In my latest National Post column I say the Canadian Prime Minister's inability to see the People's Republic of China clearly is not harmless naiveté.

"Discerning 'right' from 'wrong' in economics is a matter of distinguishing mutualistic from parasitic relationships."

Michael Rothschild, Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism

"you cannot build prescriptions on mere knowledge of positive facts, however systematized and comprehensive. You need a goal as well... it is all very well to know how the world works... But unless you have some test whereby you can distinguish good from bad, desirable consequences from undesirable, you are without an essential constituent of a theory of policy. You are like the captain of a ship equipped with charts and compasses and all the means of propulsion and steering, but without an assigned destination. A theory of economic policy, in the sense of a body of precepts for action, must take its ultimate criterion from outside economics."

Lionel Robbins The Theory of Economic Policy in English Classical Political Economy pp. 176-77.
 

"This study is an attempt to tell them that, not only is the Emperor naked, but his body is hardly a thing of beauty."

William Stanbury in Fraser Forum August 1998 [the actual topic was CanCon regulations, but the statement is apt surprisingly often]