Category: economist
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
John Maynard Keynes
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Although the big word on the left is ‘compassion,’ the big agenda on the left is dependency.
Thomas Sowell
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
John Maynard Keynes
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All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians’ warning that correlation is not causation.
Thomas Sowell
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas Sowell
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What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
Thomas Sowell
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Those who cry out that the government should ‘do something’ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
Thomas Sowell