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Money Quotes by James Surowiecki
- This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet…
- If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.
- Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in…
- The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites…
- The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments…
- Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common…
- Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to…
- You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value…
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- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. — Jane Austen
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