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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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I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity; I call…
— Jimmy Swaggart
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One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms…
— Bertrand Russell
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Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.
— Hans F. Sennholz
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Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.
— John Hay
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If it doesn’t have ambiguity, don’t bother to take it. I love that, that aspect of photography—the mendacity of photography—it’s got to…
— Sally Mann
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Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear…
— Ezra Pound
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Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a…
— Irving Layton
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The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated…
— Robert Charles Winthrop
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We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare…
— Albert J. Nock
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Deception, machination and mendacity lie at the core of human intelligence, like worms coiled at the core of a apple
— Mark Rowlands
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Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'
— Paul Craig Roberts
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