Economists are not the most pleasant people to have around when others are delightfully praising the benefits of this or that public policy. We acknowledge the existence of scarcity, the fact that to enjoy more of one thing requires having less of another, which in turn forces us into bringing up the unpleasant topic of costs. Let's look at how unpleasant economists and their subject can be. More . . .
–A NEW article by Walter E. Williams