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States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable
The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.
...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.
My family is a Jewish Iranian family, but I was born in Turkey and raised in Italy. So it's a very mixed background.
Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
The United States has collapsed economically, socially, politically, legally, constitutionally, and environmentally.
My belief is that nothing that can be expressed by mathematics cannot be expressed by careful use of literary words.
Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular.
Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!
The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.
Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.
The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.
Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being
Phelps has given us a clear warning of the dangers of corporatism. I hope that more people hear and heed the warning.
Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.
It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family.
Russia does not control oil prices - OPEC does. So Russia is a hostage in the hands of those who control these prices
I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.
Being without work [in the United States] is still far better for most people than being employed in Central America.
Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.
There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.
In effect, there has been a significant shortfall in the overall amount of monetary policy stimulus since early 2009.
It's pretty rare to just talk to people who are having a tough time in the economy, to hear their individual stories.
Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.
Recognition of the inevitability of comprehensive bureaucratization does not solve the problems that arise out of it.
There is something about the mindset of a scientist that is different - an awareness of uncertainty, modeling, proof.
If a group of people has no sense where they came from-it is difficult for them to have a sense where they should go.
Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. And believe me, it will be enough.
The main dividing line is still race. This is the issue that must be focused upon in all working class organizations.
When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.
The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.
A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.
The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him.
Most of our country's serious problems can be laid at the feet of Congress and the White House and not at capitalism.
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank.
What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.
Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens.