Dr. Williams is awesome. :)
I've sat aside the morning to read through his citizen articles and his Hillsdale College lecture .
I personally believe that economics is fun and valuable. People who say they found it a nightmare in college just didn't have a good teacher-professor.
Personally, I believe that bad teacher-professor most likely choked the life out of his students with Samuelson's Economics. :-)
"Williams, the true test of whether someone understands his subject is whether he can explain it to someone who doesn't know a darn thing about it." That's a challenge I love: making economics fun and understandable.
Looks like my kind of guy.
A story is told about Thorstein Veblen's teaching style at the University of Chicago. Apparently, he tried his best not to have one.
At the beginning of each semester, after dutifully calling the roll for the first and last time, he would inform his students they couldn't possibly pass his exams, and therefore could not possibly pass his course. They should withdraw.
He then proceeded, some say deliberately, to make his lectures as boring and as incomprehensible as possible. The few students who managed to endure to the end were generally all rewarded with the same grade, a "C".
Don't think Williams and Veblen would have gotten along. :-)