“A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.” RealFeelingsGovernmentCareValuesSuccessfulPolicyProduceHairArgumentMachinesHealth CareConsumersReal ThingsManufacturingWashingHaircutsDryersWashing MachinesHair Dryers Author:Christina Romer
“Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.” GivingAsksAnswersPolicyProduceFindingsResearchCombiningRight Questions Author:Richard Layard, Baron Layard
“It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new strategy to produce what we need: a stable Iraq government that takes over for its own people so our troops can finish their job.” PeopleNeedsGovernmentJobsPolicyProduceStrategyIraqStableTroopsStatus QuoOur Troops Author:Hillary Clinton
“Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.” ResultsConditionsPolicyProduceEconomics Book:Speaking up Source: Speaking up
“Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.” NeedsUseTodayPolicyProduceAvailableSoilAgricultureParadigmHolistic Author:Allan Savory
“We also have to match the skills with the needs of the economy... I think we are losing the plot because we are continuing to produce the people that are not going to be the drivers of industrialisation. So that needs the discipline of both training institutions and policies that drive our people to industrialisation.” PeopleThinkingNeedsEconomyPolicyProduceDisciplineSkillsLosingTrainingInstitutionsPlotDriversContinuing Author:Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
“Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artefacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state.” DifferentStatesActionCoursesSocialCompanySituationPlansPolicyDesignProduceMaterialsActivityIntellectualSickPatientWelfareDesignerEngineersRemedySocial WelfareArtefacts Author:Herbert Simon
“What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to produce an effect in line with White House policies rather than giving a full picture of a particular situation.” GivingMeanDoeHouseLinesWhiteSituationEffectsPolicyProduceParticularWhite House Author:Elliott Abrams
“Improving the quality of our lives should be the ultimate target of public policies. But public policies can only deliver best fruit if they are based on reliable tools to measure the improvement they seek to produce in our lives.” IfsShouldQualityOur LivesPolicyProduceToolsUltimateFruitImprovementTargetImprovingPublic Policy Author:Jose Angel Gurria
“Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't want it in their business. They want protection from competition, they want subsidies, they want the government to pick winners and losers, and they want to be picked as winners, and that's what we're opposing, and that's what drives my whole efforts in policy, and in the political arena.” PeopleWantWholeGovernmentPoliticalEffortCompanyPolicyProducePicksCompetitionProtectionWinnerEnterpriseGoodsLoserArenaOpposingFree EnterpriseSubsidiesGoods And ServicesWinner And Loser Author:Charles Koch
“The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.” PeopleNeedsWritingSeemsSchoolLevelsKnownClassPlansMiddlePolicyProducePoliticianBenefitsProgramBlindSpotsExcellentMiddle ClassRetirementUrgentSalaryEditsNanniesBlind SpotsHealth BenefitsUpper Middle Class Author:Judith Warner
“US government policies are continuing to do exactly the same thing [produce terrorism]. Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But of course it is just easier to terrorise people.” PeopleHas BeensTwoGovernmentCoursesPolicyProduceEasierTerrorismStrikesPeacefulTargetVillageContinuingBostonMarathonAttackingBombingTwo DaysDronesGovernment PolicyYemenBoston Marathon Author:Noam Chomsky
“Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.” ShouldCareChildhoodPolicyProduceTaxesTrainingPaidInvestmentIncludingCreditGoodsWagesParentalEarly ChildhoodCaregiversCaregivingEarly Childhood Education Author:Riane Eisler
“Just imagine, more than half of the young people in the European Union do not have jobs. How can one explain that? How can one explain that to a working family, that produces goods and services, those who produce the olive oil that is a a main source of food in any European country? They humbly work the land with great effort and then the little resources they had saved in banks have now become dust simply because they did not have the means to withstand inflation produced by the adjustment policies.” PeopleMeanLittlesCountryJobsYoungEffortHalfImagineLandPolicyProduceSourceResourcesUnionsOilSavedDustGoodsInflationAdjustmentEuropean UnionOlivesEuropean CountriesGoods And ServicesGreat EffortOlive Oil Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.” JobsLostGrowthMillionsClearCuttingEconomicPolicyProduceTaxesFellowsDemocraticFaultsPrioritiesEconomic GrowthTax Cuts Author:Nancy Pelosi