Please include this in all articles and posts when discussing economists’ proposals. They are not scientists, they are artists. They may employ very complex calculus, but its usually meaningless, as their models are only rough guesses. They can’t even measure response accurately enough to know if their solutions are working.

“Lanchester has turned himself into one of the world’s great explainers of the financial crisis and its aftermath. He has a gift for taking a reader who knows nothing about a complicated topic and leaving him with the feeling that he knows all about it, or at least everything worth knowing. He makes you feel smarter than you are”

–Lewis isn’t talking about Lanchester — he’s talking about himself.