A very Happy New Year and warmest wishes for 2014 to all readers of this blog.

A thought from Thomas Hobbes to keep us all aware of our own cognitive biases as vigorous discussions about the economy continue:

“[Those] who commonly … call for right reason to decide any controversy, do mean their own.”

This is from [amazon_link id=”019283682X” target=”_blank” ]The Elements of Law, Natural and Political[/amazon_link], and is quoted in my current reading, Anthony Pagden’s [amazon_link id=”019966093X” target=”_blank” ]The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters[/amazon_link].

Here’s to a year of thoroughly reasonable and evidence-based debate.

[amazon_image id=”019966093X” link=”true” target=”_blank” size=”medium” ]The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters[/amazon_image]