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Adam Davidson Quotes

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Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.

Discipline Economics Answers Complex

When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage.

Marriage Baby Financial You Look

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

Rich Powerful Poor Crush Powerless

Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'

Money Chaos American Tradition Wall

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

History Culture Simple People Choose

Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.

Culture Day Roots Deep American

The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious, hardworking person without a huge amount of resources has a pretty good shot, in the end, of beating out a less smart, less ambitious, less hardworking rich person.

Good Smart Rich Think End America

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

Simple Fight Tax Over System Should

Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.

Happiness Measure Fair Economists

Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

Happiness Bridge Building Statistics

Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.

Happiness Rich Become Most Increases

Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.

Life Growth American Way Economic

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