The establishment may not like this new understanding of economics but you'll find it compelling, and there are those who think it essential for Leakage to be read and understood:
[from the back cover copy, quoted with permission]
"The real world is a place where people, especially economists, do not often listen to those with whom they disagree nor confront one another's arguments; people have very strong vested interests in ideas they have already mastered and written articles and books about."
- Leonard Silk in Economics in the Real World (Simon & Schuster)
But there are exceptions:"Most economists like myself react with impatience and even annoyance when asked to look at a wholly dissenting conception. I feel a mixture of sympathy and uncertainty when I read your words. I would be very curious to discover how other unorthodox economists react to your ideas."
- Robert L. Heilbroner
"In every era, it seems, only people who were outside the circle of conventional opinion were able to perceive the realities clearly. In some ways, that describes our present dilemma too. We are governed by experts who are themselves hobbled by their own thought systems. It is a circle that can only be broken by people like yourself."
- from a letter to the author from William Greider
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