The 19th-century academic William Graham Sumner had a famous formulation for the hidden costs of feel-good economic legislation. Persons A and B, he wrote, usually get together to decide what C will be compelled to do to alleviate problem X. "What I want to do," Sumner wrote, "is to look up C. I call him the Forgotten Man. Perhaps the appellation is not strictly correct. He is the man who is... (Read Full Article)