Quotes by Arnold Kling - Page 1

Anyone who believes that we can afford collectively what we cannot afford individually is delusional.
Arnold Kling / Economist
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Constitutional provisions are not barriers to government misconduct. At best, they can be speed bumps.
Arnold Kling / Economist
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That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.
Arnold Kling / Economist
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Agendas
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The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.
Arnold Kling / Economist
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Phelps has given us a clear warning of the dangers of corporatism. I hope that more people hear and heed the warning.
Arnold Kling / Economist
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After over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance themselves.
Arnold Kling / Economist
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I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of 'marketing' their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and over-selling government solutions.
Arnold Kling / Economist
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When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost producer.
Arnold Kling / Economist
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I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.
Arnold Kling / Economist
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I think that the main issue with inequality is not the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the gap between the earnings of top business leaders and the salaries of academics and journalists.
Arnold Kling / Economist
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The gap between what one knows and what one thinks one knows may be higher in the ranks of the elite. The result is supposedly-clever government interventions, introduced with excessive confidence, leading to disastrous results.
Arnold Kling / Economist
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Your generosity is reflected in what you do with your own money, not in what you do with other people's money. If I give a lot of money to charity, then I am generous. If you give a smaller fraction of your money to charity, then you are less generous. But if you want to tax me in order to give my money to charity, that does not make you generous.
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I am worried about climate change. In one respect, I may be more worried than other people. I am worried because I have very little confidence that we know what is causing it....One of my fears is that we could reduce carbon emissions by some drastic amount, only to discover that-oops-it turns out that climate change is being caused by something else.
Arnold Kling / Economist
Carbon Emissions
Climate
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I call this the Fundamental Problem of Political Economy. How do we limit the power that idiots have over us? ... [Milton] Friedmans insight is that a market limits the power that others have over us; conversely, limiting the power that others have over us allows us to have markets. Friedman argued that no matter how wise the officials of government may be, market competition does a better job of protecting us from idiots.
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