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• Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
• Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men…
• I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour
• Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders…
• I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration.…
• Economy is the art of making the most of life.
• The most fundamental constraint is limited time
• Different constraints are decisive for different situations, but the most fundamental constraint is limited time.
• Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians…
• I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
• Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and…
• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

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