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“Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay. Education provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income and an enhanced quality of life.”

Quote by William Vickrey

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William Vickrey

William Vickrey was a Nobel Prize-winning economist renowned for his contributions to auction theory. His research in economics had a profound impact on modern auction practices. more

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“Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.”

Humans Mean Evil Term Greater Welfare Unemployment Deficit

Book:Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey

Source: Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey

“The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy, moreover, is likely to be perverse. High interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure, as well as inhibiting the expansion of capacity or the introduction of cost -reducing capital improvements.”

Sides Interest Effects Policy Cost Pressure Rate Monetary Interest Rate Side Effects Monetary Policy

Author:William Vickrey

“Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.”

Loss Gains Raises Sufficient Wipe Sellers

Book:Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey

Source: Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey

“There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.”

Should Real Government Budgets Balanced Justification Requirements Rallying Hamstrings Rallying Point

Book:Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey

Source: Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey

“There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.”

Years Two Real States Reason Moving Three Next Resources Available Genuine Employment No Reason Three Years Inherent

Book:Public Economics: Selected Papers by William Vickrey

Source: Public Economics: Selected Papers by William Vickrey

“It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.”

Values Humanity Share Land Citizens Fellows Guarantees Taxation Guarantees That Obtaining

Author:William Vickrey

“A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.”

Persons Causes Loss Groups Stupid Gains Incurring Stupid Person

Author:Carlo M. Cipolla

“Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of the improbable action of some preposterous creature who has nothing to gain and indeed gains nothing from causing us embarrassment, difficulties or harm. Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does. In fact there is no explanation - or better there is only one explanation: the person in question is stupid.”

“Give me a little peace. A little? Why so modest? How about eternal peace? Now, there's a thought.”

Giving Littles Eternal Give Me Modest Eternal Peace

Author:James Goldman

“Nothing in life has any business being perfect.”

Author:James Goldman