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It is often observed that incompetent economists are better at spreading their errors among the public than competent economists are at spreading the truth. The reason for this is that bad economists actually introduce people to half-truths. They only talk about the short-term effects that a given policy would have on a specific group of people. To solve this problem …

“In economics, every action, custom, institution, or law, produces not just one result, but a series of consequences. Of all of them, only one consequence is immediate; it appears simultaneously with the cause (and the action); it is visible. The other consequences appear later; they are invisible; we are lucky if we can foresee them.” …