26 March 2017

Published by Profile Books in November 2016, “Scorn: The Wittiest and Wickedest Insults in Human History” by Matthew Parris includes the following quote from John’s 2004 FT article, questioning why people like to believe in fairies and superior returns from hedge funds: “Economists define adulthood as the moment at which your expenditure on Christmas presents first exceeds the value of the gifts you can expect to receive.”