I look forward to speaking on the Euro crisis tomorrow at the People’s Pledge Congress. In preparing, I rediscovered this: …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 any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in […]

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