Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.

John Bull can stand many things but can not stand two percent.

Mooi en blauw is de wereld.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.

In a lot of macroeconomics, “not obviously wrong” is serious praise.