Monday, December 6th, 2010

Commentary: If it’s called ‘economic development,’ anything goes

Lewis Carroll, the fiction writer (and Oxford mathematics cecturer under his given name, Charles Dodgson), understood something profound about the operation of government and the actions of government officials, both elected and appointed. In his book “Through the Looking-Glass,” one of the characters, known as Humpty Dumpty said, “When I use a word, it means just what...