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

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.

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.

What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.

Feminism is not a one size fits all kinda thing but anyone can wear it.

You cannot be a friend to someone else, if you do not have a friendship with yourself.

She hated herself more than she could express.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.

Comfort zones are deadly zones because you lose your true potential of what you can be, you start going with the status quo.

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

I've always liked my clothes, even before I could properly afford them. Clothes for me were never a cloak, a cover. They were how I chose to express myself.

A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run.