… is from page 8 of the late, great UCLA economists Armen Alchian’s and William Allen’s Universal Economics (2018; Jerry L. Jordan, ed.); this volume is an updated version of Alchian’s and Allen’s magnificent and pioneering earlier textbook, University Economics:
We want your study of economics to be interesting and even enjoyable. But we promise one unanticipated result: you’ll be brainwashed – in the “desirable” sense of removing erroneous beliefs. You will begin to suspect that a vast majority of what people popularly believe about economic events is at least misleading and often wrong.



We want your study of economics to be interesting and even enjoyable. But we promise one unanticipated result: you’ll be brainwashed – in the “desirable” sense of removing erroneous beliefs. You will begin to suspect that a vast majority of what people popularly believe about economic events is at least misleading and often wrong.
