I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

There's lots and lots of guys out there. The question is trying to find the right one.

Economics spreads happiness.

There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.

I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for - people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.

Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it... that's a real problem.