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...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological…
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For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely…
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Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.
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When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth…
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What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after…
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Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.
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Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the…
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There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and…
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Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
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I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.
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Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in…
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We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.
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The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances,…
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Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers…
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There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and…
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...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at…
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When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and…
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Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the…
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In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates…
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She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly…
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