“The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.”
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“As soon as the dead started walking, they stopped sharing their secrets with the living.”
― Feed
― Feed
“If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary - the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.”
― Wonder
― Wonder
“Here we shall have to say simply that all government expenditures must eventually be paid out of the proceeds of taxation; that inflation itself is merely a form, and a particularly vicious form, of taxation.”
― Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
― Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
“Do I give money to charity and help old-lady zombies across streets so that they can bite babies?”
― Deadline
― Deadline
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