We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than...
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
In the world of minor lunacy, the behavior of both the utterly rational and the totally insane seems equally odd.
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the w...
But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to...
The capacity for erroneous belief is very great, especially where it coincides with convenience.
None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter good economists who are difficult writers even though some...
Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.
Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in...
Η συμπεριφορά των διοικήσεων των επιχειρήσεων μπορεί να διορθωθεί εκ βάθρων, αν υπάρχει και το όχι και τόσο ευχάριστο μεν,πραγματικό δε, ενδεχόμενο της φυλάκισης