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Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you've been following climate science, you know…
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We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels…
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However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is needed is…
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The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.
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The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't…
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People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to…
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Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side…
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Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is…
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I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough…
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In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the…
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Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group…
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It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run…
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. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.
— Robert Adams
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Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete…
— Thomas Sowell
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Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of…
— Joycelyn Elders
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I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and…
— Thomas Menino
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Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death…
— Paul Krugman
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Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in…
— Rosa DeLauro
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Introducing a technology is not a neutral act--it is profoundly revolutionary. If you present a new technology to the world you are…
— Unknown Author
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Indias rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.
— Steven Rattner
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The wealthiest 300 people have greater riches than the three billion poorest. The three wealthiest people have greater riches than the 48…
— Tony Juniper
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Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. …
— Bill Gates
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The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious…
— Zhuangzi
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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to…
— Aberjhani
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