An anatomical interlude

Cross posted at Political Arguments.

I am busy, busy, busy working on my dissertation proposal and have been unforgivably neglecting my blogospheric responsibilities. But I ran into a quotation just now that begged to be shared, not because the image therein was at all new, but rather because the metaphor had been expanded by the speaker in a most useful way.

The well-balanced economist is a normal human being with his warm heart on the Left, his practical work-a-day hand on the Right, and his clear and thoughtful head in the Centre.

From James E. Meade's Banquet Speech upon receiving the 1977 Nobel Prize in Economics.