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… is from page 136 of my colleague Peter Boettke’s 2019 speech, delivered at a regional meeting in Fort Worth of the Mont Pelerin Society, “The Role of the Economist in a Free Society,” as the text of this speech appears in Pete’s 2021 collection, The Struggle for a Better World [2] (original emphasis):
Simple economics is not simpleminded, and clarity of exposition of the principles of economics is to be valued over quickness of mind and cleverness in presentation.
DBx: Pictured here is Frédéric Bastiat [3], whose talent at conveying important economic truths to the general public is still unmatched 172 years after his death. Thanks in large part to David Hart, Bastiat’s collected works [4] are in the works.