If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin against free trade?

But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one.

The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth.

As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.

When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.

In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.

If social security depresses savings rates, it is only because it is unfunded.

Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.

Not surprisingly, extensive effort in Britain and America goes into finding tax shelter. the system is "efficient" for the shelter industry, not for the economy.

It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.

In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad.

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

I can't take anything you don't give me. Stop giving me power over your life.

Believing or not makes no difference to the Absolute of Things That Be. But it does to you. For you shall live and die accordingly. A wise person, or a fool. Choose.

And today is really the happiest day of your life, because today you woke up and stumbled across the shadow of your soul in broad daylight."From Central Park Song: a Screenplay

Paradise A concept embraced by almost every culture. A land of peace and harmony. Some say it doesn't belong to the earth, that there is no Shangri-la, no utopian wilderness for the living.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

Is it so good to be sad...? If it is... then I don't care to be good.

I listen to my own heart, stand for only that. That's it.

Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.