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In my latest National Post column I say Banksy bagging $16 million for a “subversive” painting of the British parliament as a bunch of chimpanzees shows the debased state of our culture that helps explain the debased state of our politics.

“that scarce resource Love.”

Dennis Robertson, urging economists to find ways to minimize the demands public policy places on altruism, quoted in James Buchanan What Should Economists Do?

"To predict the broad developments of the future is no more of a tour de force than to divine those of the past.... If past events have left their traces, it is reasonable to imagine that those still to come have their roots."

Honoré de Balzac, quoted in Leonard Silk The Economists

In my latest National Post column I say we’re back in the deficit handbasket despite economic theory and the painful experience of the past half century because we’re being bribed.