Da série "Frases que impõem respeito"™ [668]

People on fad diets put their health at risk but rarely achieve the permanent weight loss they desire. Similarly, when politicians rely on the advice of charlatans and cranks, they rarely get the desirable results they anticipate. …
… when the economics profession appears in disarray, you should ask whether the disagreement is real or manufactured. It may be that some snake-oil salesman is trying to sell a miracle cure for what ails the economy.

N. Gregory Mankiw, Principles of Microeconomics, New York: Dryden, (1998), p. 30

Afonso