I think I was snarking... De mentioned her less than favourable reaction to a book claiming that the way out of 3rd world poverty was for poor people who own their houses to get mortgages on them. I suspect the book in question is The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else but I am not sure.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith