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“President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.”

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Author:Bob Beauprez

“most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.”

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Author:Alice Rivlin

“I don't think money can be understood through a lens limited to economics. And most books about money tell you the history of money, the instrument. But money is also an idea, one that we exchange to survive.”

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Author:Kabir Sehgal

“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.”

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Author:John Maynard Keynes

“Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.”

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Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

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“We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a universal, incontestable fact, resulting from the nature of man, and not an adverse judgment, as would be the word selfishness.”

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Author:Frederic Bastiat

“In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works of human genius can be understood in the end to be products of a cascade of generate-and-test procedures that are, at bottom, algorithmic and mindless.”

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Author:Daniel Dennett

“The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.”

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Author:John McCain

“If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek