re: #545 Killgore Trout

I think the comparison to Darwin is very appropriate. One of the big differences is that we all learned about evolution in high school and it’s a fairly easy concept. Economics is not very well covered and most people have a very limited understanding. It makes an easy target for loons and quacks like Ron Paul and the Mises Institute. Unfortunately, the Tea Party and Republicans have adopted quack economics into their agenda because it’s easy to get the wingnuts excited with talking points about a subject they don’t understand.

Economics is one of those very simple things that quickly becomes very complex.

I find myself constantly returning to: “Economics is the Study of the Use of Resources”