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“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
“Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.”
― Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
― Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
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“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
― Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays
― Is Reality Optional? And Other Essays
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
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