Robert Solow Quotes

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• There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way
• It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible…
• Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?
• But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.
• Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Everything reminds me of sex, but I try to keep it out of my papers.
• The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.
• You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
• The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in a…
• The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice,…
• If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al…
• Everything reminds Milton Friedman of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.

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