Paul Krugman has a short post up at his blog reflecting on the pleasure of attending a session within the academic world on economics. This comment jumps out:
I suppose I could have stayed in that life, which would have been really comfortable. But it’s not the real world of economic policy, which is full of people who aren’t smart, don’t know what they’re talking about, and/or are anything but honest. And someone has to take that real world on.
Yup.