I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market Fraud," January 1999). But I've been interrupted these last few months. It deals with all of the things we do, in an innocent way, to cover up the truth.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.