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“Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.”

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I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

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But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.

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China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization.

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Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those…

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Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they…

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It's actually a tribute to the quality of economics teaching that they have persuaded so many generations of students to believe in so much…

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In an economy, when the government spends more and invests in the economy, that money circulates, and recirculates again and again. So not only…

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The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits.

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A less healthy America is not going to be as productive.

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As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability -…

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We noted the psychological problems facing many of the returning from Iraq veterans - of the 700,000 returning veterans, more than a 100,000 have…

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World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get…

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