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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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The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.
— Paul Krugman
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At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually,…
— Frank Cady
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Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in…
— Louise Penny
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We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon…
— Leon Jouhaux
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Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity.
— Louise Penny
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Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an…
— Criss Jami
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I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very…
— Woody Harrelson
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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men…
— Thomas Szasz
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Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no…
— Oliver Sacks
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Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being,…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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