… is from page 131 of my colleague Peter Boettke’s 2019 talk “The Role of the Economist in a Free Society,” as this talk is printed in Pete’s 2021 collection, The Struggle for a Better World:
Economics in the hands of its masters is an expert critique of rule by expertise.
DBx: Absolutely correct.
Pictured above is economist Ken Elzinga teaching one of his principles of microeconomics courses at the University of Virginia. Ken is justly famous for being a singularly superb teacher of economics.
