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We are already well down the ...

We are already well down the road toward a managed-trade regime. It would be far better to acknowledge that reality, and seek a set of reasonable rules, than to pretend that Ricardian trade is the norm and allow mercantilist states to overwhelm U.S. industry and ratchet down wages, in the name of free trade.

Robert Kuttner 25 quotes

Donald Rumsfeld should not jus...

Donald Rumsfeld should not just be impeached. He should be tried as a war criminal. As for Bush, he can be dispatched by the electorate while we are still a democracy.

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What do you call an economist ...

What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.

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In a world where technology an...

In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.

Robert Kuttner 25 quotes

The economic illusion is the b...

The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth.

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American critics of welfare st...

American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically larger public sector, have fewer government employees per capita than the United States does.

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Despite its scientific
pr...

Despite its scientific
pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

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Technological change is benefi...

Technological change is beneficial only when other jobs replace the ones lost.

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But of course you can have you...

But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one.

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In practice, a good deal of th...

In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad.

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It is more than a little ironi...

It is more than a little ironic that 'capital accumulation' once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.

Robert Kuttner 25 quotes

If social security depresses s...

If social security depresses savings rates, it is only because it is unfunded.

Robert Kuttner 25 quotes

When laissez-faire creates ins...

When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.

Robert Kuttner 25 quotes

If Boeing got a big head start...

If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin against free trade?

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Technological advance often th...

Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade.

Robert Kuttner 25 quotes

George Stigler Nobel laureate ...

George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology, psychology, history, etc. 'Don't worry', Stigler said, 'they have already have a Nobel Prize in ...Literature'

Robert Kuttner 25 quotes

We are already well down the r...

We are already well down the road toward a managed-trade regime. It would be far better to acknowledge that reality, and seek a set of reasonable rules, than to pretend that Ricardian trade is the norm and allow mercantilist states to overwhelm U.S. industry and ratchet down wages, in the name of free trade.

Robert Kuttner 25 quotes

Henry Ford, in a sense, was th...

Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.

Robert Kuttner 25 quotes

Not surprisingly, extensive ef...

Not surprisingly, extensive effort in Britain and America goes into finding tax shelter. the system is 'efficient' for the shelter industry, not for the economy.

Robert Kuttner 25 quotes

By default, we have created a ...

By default, we have created a 'system' of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....