I am a fan of Theodore Dalrymple. His books and his periodic posts are wonderfully written, elegant, social commentary. His view is outside the narrow bandwidth of the acceptable for Main Street Media amplification. His writings are ‘anti-excess-consumption’. His writing is a view of the periphery.
The embedded post expresses, better than I ever could, the absurdity of an economist. Enjoy…

When Mediocrity Strikes
I think I too could be a Nobel Prize winner in economics-at least if an interview with Joseph Stiglitz in a recent edition of Le Figaro, the French newspaper, on the occasion of the publication of one of his books published in French, is anything to go by.

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