“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
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The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.