Favorite Quotes "A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is a characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy. ... The cranks are to be preferred to the orthodox because they see that there is a problem." --Joan Robinson (girl economist), The Second Crisis of Economic Theory, Richard T. Ely Lecture, published in American Economic Review, 1972, 62(1):1-10