In my latest National Post column I say we must get over our belief that we can live without trade-offs or anything bad ever happening, and make real-world choices about quarantines and everything else.
“It’s budget season in Canada — the time of year when economists emerge from their dens, shake the moss out of their hair, scratch a tree, note the length of their shadow and use it to predict that the economy will definitely grow this year unless conditions cause it to stall.”
Monte Solbert in Ottawa Sun February 24, 2014
“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.