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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 most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
— Hannah Arendt
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has…
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
— Aristophanes
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
— Aristotle
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of…
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler…
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
— Aristotle
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
— Aristotle
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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Man is by nature a political animal.
— Aristotle
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
— Aristotle
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