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“I became convinced that the advanced industrial countries, through international organizations like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the World Bank, we...”
“Thirty years ago [written 2009], over-regulation, over-taxation, mis-regulation, statism, state corporatism, and economic folly, cosiness and regulatory capture, and a crescent ideological enemy wi...”
“The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.”
“People want to think of economics as a natural science, like physics, with the comforting reliability of simple-to-understand theories like F=MA. Unfortunately, it isn't. Economics is a social scie...”
“The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry p...”
“Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.”
“I can't think of a president who has been overburdened by a knowledge of economics.”
“Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.”
“Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.”
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
“Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.”
“Economics has become as riveting as politics.”
“Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.”
“Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government prov...”
“Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.”
“Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the pe...”
“Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.”
“Considering what is at stake politically, economically and technically for most organizations; usually justifying IT governance deployment based on one viewpoint narrows suitability and expected be...”
“What these men represented was not 'The West' but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in America, a group devoid of social responsibilities because their ties to any one...”
“Economics is a political argument. It is not – and can never be – a science; there are no objective truths in economics that can be established independently of political, and frequently moral, jud...”
