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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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People must be changed...goodness cannot be legislated.
— Spencer W. Kimball
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General rules have been legislated into being by past masters.
— John Ciardi
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But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically…
— Paul Krugman
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I believe that what is legislated bleeds down into everything. So if the legislation continues to uphold anything that doesn't support equal…
— Pauley Perrette
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The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and…
— Ben Okri
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Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to…
— Frank Serpico
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Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian…
— Russell Smith
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Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the…
— Joe Wurzelbacher
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The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were…
— Jim Brown
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