Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

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.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

Nothing so weakens government as persistent inflation.