In my latest National Post column I ask again how governments can be surprised again to find that incentives matter again.

"To Keynes’s famous dictum - 'in the long run we are all dead' - the historian is committed by profession flatly to reply ‘Nonsense! the long run is with us, a powerful active force every day of our lives."

Walt Rostow The Process of Economic Growth

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"Yes-men are good for the ego but not for the soul. They have no effect on your thinking, and you can hardly expect them to impress your opponents."

David Gelernter in National Review March 9, 1998

"A penny saved is a little piece of copper that stays in your pocket for 10 hours."

From a list of maxims in Globe and Mail Nov. 29, 2001 sent by Nicola Gilman’s Grade 3 class at Calgary Montessori School

"Few human acts are so difficult as to say mea culpa, to face facts when they conflict with long-held philosophical views. People will do so only when they suffer severe personal injury if they persist in error. That is why businessmen, who may be bankrupted if they refuse to face facts, are one of the few groups that develop the habit of doing so."

Milton Friedman’s Preface to William Simon A Time for Truth p. xiii.
 

In my latest National Post column I say the European Union forcing Uber into the taxi company mold is bad for consumers, whose interests are once again forgotten.

"You can’t have both the penny and the bun."

David Warren in Ottawa Citizen Nov. 25, 2006