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• Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a…
• Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful…
• Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
• Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to…
• The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
• Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation…
• One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
• We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.
• The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious,…
• Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
• In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
• If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer…
• It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade…
• Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they…
• The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
• What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single…
• Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase: Stay in school.
• The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.
• To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource,…
• There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their…

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