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… is from the late G. Warren Nutter [2], a University of Virginia economist who from the late 1960s through the early 1970s served as Assistant Secretary of Defense:
In the academic world, you think now and decide never; and in the government, it’s just exactly the other way around.
Explains a lot.
Nutter here is quoted in the fascinating paper by William R. Allen [3] (of Alchian & Allen [4] fame), “Economics, Economists, and Economic Policy: Modern American Experiences,” History of Political Economy (Spring 1977), Vol. 9, pp. 48-88. This Nutter quotation is found on page 51.