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Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.

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Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - the aftereffects of which still linger - has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society.

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Trump does magic. Maybe it will be black magic sometime, but he's an amazing phenomenon.

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We should not be focusing on quick solutions. The really important concern for policymakers everywhere is to prevent disasters - that is, the outlier events that matter the most.

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The desperately poor may accept handouts, because they feel they have to. For those who consider themselves at least middle class, however, anything that smacks of a handout is not desired. Instead, they want their economic power back.

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Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.

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We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual.

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The future is always coming up with surprises for us, and the best way to insulate yourself from these surprises is to diversify.

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People who stay unemployed for a long time start to look like damaged goods, and they don't get such good offers. Also, they're not learning anything. Most learning is on-the-job learning.

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That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: March 29th, 1946

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