Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of technical innovation (which I concede, although everyone emphasizes it too much), and much more - including, of course, the rate of inflation.

It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation.

In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.