"Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man.” The fallacies are “multiplied a thousand fold by... the special pleading of selfish interests.”… “The group that would benefit by such policies, having such a direct interest in them, will argue for them plausibly and persistently. It will hire the best buyable minds to devote their whole time to presenting its case."
- Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson (excerpted from chapter one, paragraph one)