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“Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.”

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Author:Alan Greenspan

“Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.”

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Book:Essay on Marxian Economics

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital of the country, and therefore the excuse often made for extravagance, that it is good for trade, is based upon false notions respecting capital.”

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Book:Political Economy for Beginners

Source: Political Economy for Beginners

“Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard - figuring out how much to save - and requires self-control.”

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Author:Richard Thaler

“Everyone's lost a lot of money on their 401k plans. I've heard some people calling them 201k plans. So it's even more important to get people to be saving more for retirement. Behavioral economics has helped us learn a lot about how to do that.”

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Author:Richard Thaler

“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.”

“Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.”

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Author:John Tyler

“What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the product destined in part to consumption and in part to savings, in order to apply it to less productive or even destructive ends, and more rarely to savings.”

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Author:Gustave de Molinari

“In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided to borrow a bit more and do even better.”

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Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“The growth of a nation's productive potential is the central factor in determining its growth in real wages and living standards.... high rates of investment and saving usually have a big payoff in promoting economic growth.”

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Author:Paul Samuelson

“In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really beady-eyed scrutiny of their resource management, with an eye to environmental best-practice and long term sustainability, produce fresh efficiency and fresh savings that actually shock those in the company”

“The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.”

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Author:Jim Fowler