Keynesian modelling relies on marginal propensity to consume and marginal propensity to invest. The idea that if we give more money to the poor, they have a propensity to consume that's much higher than the wealthy, though I wish they would talk to my wife about that; she seems to have a propensity to consume.
Myron Scholes
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My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.
Danny K. Davis
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Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.
Christine Pelosi
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens
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Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke
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More often than not, people who are poor... are right where they should be.
Steven Crowder
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A lot of Labour people are telling me Labour is in poor shape.
Martin McGuinness
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The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Eduardo Galeano
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My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
Condoleezza Rice
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Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.
Cesar Chavez
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For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs.
Barton Gellman
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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
Sidney Poitier
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Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.
Mark Sanford
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Benjamin Disraeli
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If you can't sell your product, it goes from being an asset to a liability. Learn to sell, partner with someone who can sell, or learn to be poor.
Clay Clark
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Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.
Bill O'Reilly
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries
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Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It's a script error.
Shiv Nadar
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Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of London during the Blitz and you were trying to eke out a living as a hairdresser.
Linda Grant
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Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks undercapitalized and heavily burdened with bad loans.
Ben Bernanke
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
Brendan Behan
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I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!
Bill Gates
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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