+1 from me because he's one of the few cases where his work is not only smart/educating in RL, but, as a bonus, he almost sounds like a fictional character, too

+1 from me because he's one of the few cases where his work is not only smart/educating in RL, but, as a bonus, he almost sounds like a fictional character, too good to be true. When I first encountered him I thought to myself, "He sounds like somebody improvised up by Douglas Adams in HHGG. 'An apple fell from a tree. This was widely regarded as a bad move. In fact the most popular selling series of books on economics, by one Thorstein Veblen, in his The Theory of the Leisure Class, has pretty much confirmed this, though it has taken nearly a millenia for his proof to fully saturate and be accepted to date within the furthest reaches of the Galactic Empire, despite many incentives for readers such as scratch-and-sniff insta-win prizes.'"