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“Democracy, we now know, is more than periodic elections in some countries, such elections have been used to legitimize essentially authoritarian regimes and deprive large parts of the citizenry of ...”
“Suppose someone were to describe a small country that provided free education through university for all of its citizens, transportation for schoolchildren, and free health care - including heart s...”
“An expert whose argument reeks of restraint or nuance often doesn't get much attention.”
“Thats because they dont know, said Tyburn. Its like economics. Everybodys got a theory, and some people make it their religion.”
“To sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.”
“There lies another power in man. That power is Moral: Its name is CHOICE! Within this one word, Choice, lies the story of mans world. It stands for the secret poise within him. It reveals as a flas...”
“world is not a zero-sum struggle in which one country's gain is another's loss.”
“Relative poverty is when you have more taste than money.”
“In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth.”
“Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...”
“Fierce, and what capitalists sometimes call 'ruinous' competition tends, therefore, to produce leap-frogging innovations that more often that not lead capitalists to fetishise technological and org...”
“It is natural that the appearance of pollution should have taken by surprise an economic science which has delighted in playing around with all kinds of mechanistic models. Curiously, even after th...”
“It rests on the attempt since the 1970s to translate a pathological degeneration of the principle of laissez-faire into economic reality by the systematic retreat of states from any regulation or c...”
“We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.”
“Misconceptions of business are almost inevitable in a society where most people have neither studied nor run businesses. In a society where most people are employees and consumers, it is easy to th...”
“it is easier to induce national governments to discriminate against foreign producers than to defend the interests of domestic consumers”
“Inflation consists of subsidizing expenditures that give no returns with money that does not exist.”
“This resulted in a model of the macroeconomy as consisting of a single consumer, who lives for ever, consuming the output of the economy, which is a single good produced in a single firm, which he ...”
“But this is your home''Not any longer, my poppet. Women make nests but men make bequests and scatter them. Heigh-ho!”
“The Socialist system requires that each individual act out of selfless, altruistic motives. It sounds nice, but the only way that could happen is if Man were innately centered on others.”
