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- There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.
- It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It is…
- Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of more demand. But…
- The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an aim can be…
- The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and…
- Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man
- When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people…
- Capitalism will continue to eliminate mass poverty in more and more places and to an increasingly marked extent if it is merely permitted to do…
- It is possible to increase paper-money income to any amount by debasing the currency. But real income can only be increased by working harder or…
- Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and…
- We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.
- More and more people are becoming aware that government has nothing to give them without first taking it away from somebody else-or from themselves. Increased…
- A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness…
- Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be…
- The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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