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If every increase in the after-tax wage rate gave a permanent boost to the amount of labor supplied, we reasoned, steeply rising after-tax wages since the mid-nineteenth century would have brought an extraordinary increase in the length of the workweek and in retirement ages.

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Yet, no amount of diplomacy or institutional design can make up for local failures and the consequences that they have.

That's an amazing amount of human endeavor.

And what you'll find is that a tremendous amount of work gets done when no one talks to each other.

But if we would count all the individuals, and we take an average weight of them, it would amount to something like 200 to 2,000 kilograms for each of you and me on Earth.

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