Ben's column reminded me of that bit in "The Importance of Being Earnest."
"Cecily, you will read your Political Economy in my absence. the chapter on the fall of the rupee you may omit. It is a bit too sensational. Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side."
Ben is in the position of that unnamed author of a textbook on economics. He has written about these metallic problems somewhat melodramatically, and his critics have taken the tone of Cecily's tutor.
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