Policy Quotes

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Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than… — Robert E. Lee
Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most… — Barack Obama
I think we should do better next week, better the week after, and better right throughout the course of our government. Sometimes in parties these… — Gordon Brown
Economic policies command bipartisan support only when they're incoherent. — Steven Landsburg
We know how to punish retailers and manufacturers that don't provide quality and value. But we're lousy at fighting effectively for what we really need… — Shoshana Zuboff
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants? — Robert Solow
Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by… — Noam Chomsky
We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled… — Ronald Coase
There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a literature generated by… — Unknown Author
It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able… — Tony Benn
You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment. — Michael Foot
I believe that marriage has served society well, and I believe it is important to affirm that, that marriage between a man and a woman… — George W. Bush
Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years… — E F Schumacher
I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American… — David Rockefeller
The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose… — Ludwig von Mises
Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably… — Unknown Author
[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of… — John C. Calhoun
Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of raising… — Paul Krugman
I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough to stimulate alternative… — Paul Krugman

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