Borrowed Quote by Gregory Benford Download Open image “Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.” — Gregory Benford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Borrowed Economics Modern States Time Welfare Welfare state
“Yet today, all over the developed world, welfare states are on shaky ground. The tax rates necessary to sustain the massive transfer programs are… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future. — Abigail Scott Duniway Copy Share Image
The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest,… — Martin Durkin Copy Share Image
The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the rich would… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The social and racial conflict, which springs from the redistribution ideology, may deepen as economic output is shrinking and transfer 'entitlements cause budget deficits… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Economics evolved as a more moral and more egalitarian approach to policy than prevailed in its surrounding milieu. Let's cherish and extend that heritage.… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century welfare state capitalism was historically unique in that national income was split between wages and profits, labour and capital. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“They thought the Allies would be desperate to “buy” their reactor research in the postwar era. Apparently they were not moved to check to… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“The war had funneled men and women into familiar channels. Anton’s girls were performing their impressions of what girls were supposed to be like.” — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“Ah, I see your point. I did assist on the Okinawa drop, as the British representative. Quite simple, after we’d seen the Berlin effects.… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“Dawidoff, Nicholas. The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg. New York: Vintage, 1994. de” — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“In fact, it took the resources of three countries to produce the bomb: the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. But there was more… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“All our bright minds,” Feynman said sardonically, “and we can’t figure how to stop the enemy from dumping dirt on us.” Freeman said with… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“Moe Berg. Until he’s finished reading a paper, he considers it ‘alive’ and refuses to let anyone else touch it. When he’s done, it’s… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“Tests showed there was no enrichment. “They’re just slinging purified uranium at us, straight from the mines,” Bob said. But the next week Bob… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“I knew personally many figures in this novel: Harold Urey, who greeted me at the grad students reception at UCSD in 1963; Karl Cohen,… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“Right. Isn’t that how science works?” Redwing grinned. “If you don’t understand, do an experiment.” — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business.… — Ben Gazzara Copy Share Image
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from… — Richard Owen Copy Share Image
I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at. — Bear Bryant Copy Share Image
Any sizeable Portuguese town looks like a superstitious bride's finery - something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose. — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
In 1981, I borrowed 2,000 pounds - a lot of money back then - paid 50 quid for a seat, packed my own sandwich,… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I think when Tom Ford was there I borrowed a Gucci tux one time, and they were very nice and he was very kind. — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom.… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or other forms… — Sophie Blackall Copy Share Image
