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“It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.”

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Author:K'naan

“I was very interested in politics in college and was heading to be a lawyer. I have a degree in economics and I was interested in it. I hadn't really gotten super serious about it and I'd done a lot of student politics in high school. I really think it would be interesting and fun and challenging to go into politics.”

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Author:Jay Roach

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”

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Author:Vladimir Lenin

“The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.”

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Author:Vladimir Lenin

“I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain why they are good, the one based on perfect competition and Pareto optimality, is becoming untenable. Something much more interesting and more complicated is going on here”

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Author:Paul Romer

“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.”

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“As I talk about strengths and weaknesses in academic economics, one interesting fact you are entitled to know is that I never took a course in economics. And with this striking lack of credentials, you may wonder why I have the chutzpah to be up here giving this talk. The answer is I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize the material that students should and do find interesting about the study of the economy.”

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Author:Greg Mankiw