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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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Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
— Walter Annenberg
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It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special…
— Walter Annenberg
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By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.
— Huineng
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The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.
— Gene Tierney
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One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways,…
— Jeff Cooper
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Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a…
— Peter Medawar
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A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror
— Wilhelm Steinitz
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Close the weak banks and impose serious capital requirements on the strong ones...You see, it may sound hard-hearted, but you cannot keep…
— Paul Krugman
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I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process [IPCC process] that I view as both being motivated by…
— Christopher Landsea
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World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of…
— Pope Pius X
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There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions…
— George F. Kennan
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