“And now, as we birds say, nests before eggs.”

The Raven in C.S. Lewis The Horse and His Boy

“After all that has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience that a man is of all sorts of luggage the most difficult to be transported.”

Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations

“An economist is the fellow who’ll figure out tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.”

D.P. Diffiné, “The 1993 American Incentive System Almanac”.

In my latest National Post column I say government should focus on public health and forget central planning.

“what William James charitably called ‘earnest and helpless minds.’”

Daniel Boorstin The Genius of American Politics

In my latest Loonie Politics column I warn that, as a rising tide lifts many boats, one that suddenly recedes leaves a lot of things broken and stranded, and that unsound government programs will be conspicuous among them.

“In a series of alarming graphs – alarming even to those who don’t find all graphs alarming…”

William Watson in National Post January 2, 2002