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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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It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run…
— Paul Krugman
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Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the…
— Ralph Raico
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TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The reality is that until we can agree on a formula that reduces tariffs globally we cannot meet this Doha promise for…
— Rob Portman
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If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to…
— Unknown Author
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The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in…
— Laurance Labadie
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Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always…
— Milton Friedman
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I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public…
— Sam Houston
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The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer…
— Albert J. Nock
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In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years,…
— Henry Charles Carey
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Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's…
— Robert Kuttner
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A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.
— Thorstein Veblen
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