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I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

~Edmund Phelps

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In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.

~Edmund Phelps

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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.

~Edmund Phelps

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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.

~Edmund Phelps

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Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

~Edmund Phelps

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I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are depriving themselves of intellectual stimulation in the workplace - and personal growth - by sticking to the stultifying, rigid system that I call corporatism.

~Edmund Phelps

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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.

~Edmund Phelps

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There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy's entire bottom half merely to attract its votes.

~Edmund Phelps

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To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.

~Edmund Phelps

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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.

~Edmund Phelps

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: July 26th, 1933

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