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" An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains. "
Edmund Phelps
Bound
Concepts
Economy
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" The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies. "
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" Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union. "
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" Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives. "
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" The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations. "
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" The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy. "
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" Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their conservative values, hated the invasion of towns and regions by new businesses, upsetting traditional ways, wealth and status. "
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" Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations. "
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America
Copy
Growth
" America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most. "
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Growth
Competition
America
" As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation. "
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Work
American
Dedication
" My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time. "
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Everyday
View
" In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma. "
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Black
Urban
Long
" Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit. "
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Eat
Only
People
" Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue. "
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Outside
Blue
Well
" Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. "
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" My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans. "
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Who
Likes
" I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented. "
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" In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment. "
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Easy
" Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives. "
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Hope
Exploring
Down
" 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. "
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Government
Enough
" The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute. "
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People
Young
" Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others. "
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France
Germany
Italy
" 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. "
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Back
Always
Some
" I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home. "
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Home
Live
Life
" I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership. "
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