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Economic freedoms that transformed Russia for good and ill brought despair to laboratories and research institutes as budgets were slashed and bright young scientists fled abroad while others (most
famously
the mathematician turned oligarch Boris Berezovsky) moved into banking and other businesses.
Housing versus HabitatCAMBRIDGE – Peter Drucker, the influential management guru,
famously
said, “What does not get measured, does not get done.”
In 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin
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used the MSC to present his stark worldview, in a speech that presaged Russia’s interventions in Georgia and Ukraine.
US President George H.W. Bush once
famously
warned against “voodoo economics.”
As the American economist Herbert Stein
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put it, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
Soon after the US entered World War II, Winston Churchill
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decamped to the White House for 24 days, cementing Britain’s transatlantic alliance by deepening his relationship with Franklin Roosevelt.
In 1965, Pakistani Foreign Minister Zulficar Ali Bhutto
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declared that if India, its sworn enemy, went nuclear, his country would “eat grass and even go hungry” in order to develop a nuclear bomb of its own.
But, as the Nobel laureate Bob Dylan
famously
put it, “The times, they are a-changin’,” and today Kissinger wants to explain Trump’s uniquely “American style” to the world – a reversal that may reflect his disappointment at having failed in his original venture.
Francis Fukuyama
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argued that in the grand global struggle over the future of human political and economic organization, the forces of democracy and liberal capitalism had won a definitive victory.
Ronald Reagan
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insisted that, “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”
As then-British Foreign Secretary (and subsequently Prime Minister) Lord Salisbury
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put it, Europeans “engaged in drawing lines upon maps where no white man’s feet have ever trod.”
Ben Bernanke, the US Federal Reserve chairman, once
famously
pinned the whole US current account deficit on a “global savings glut.”
Former French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing once
famously
complained about America’s “exorbitant privilege.”
American voters, who are
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loathe to increase taxes, might start thinking a lot harder about the real economic costs of their country’s superpower status.
Of course, Joseph Schumpeter
famously
argued that one need not worry too much about monopoly rents, because competition would quickly erase the advantage.
In November 2008, less than two months after the failure of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, a visibly irate Queen Elizabeth II, visiting the London School of Economics,
famously
asked, “Why did nobody notice it?”
Bimal Ghosh, a former director of the UN Development Program,
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calculated that the daily subsidy for every cow in the EU – currently amounting to €2.50 – exceeds the daily income of millions of poor people around the world.
Bush
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said that he did not do “the vision thing.”
Real libertarians never bought the Friedmans’ claim that they were as advocating a free-market, “neutral” monetary regime: Ludwig von Mises
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called Milton Friedman and his monetarist followers a bunch of socialists.
But Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, believed in industrialization and urbanization,
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calling the new mega-dam projects his government underwrote the “temples of modern India.”
When asked what he thought about Western civilization, Gandhi
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replied, “It would be a good idea.”
Common warriors were, explicitly and famously, the decision makers among Norsemen and in Swiss Alpine cantons in the early Middle Ages.
When Democracy Fails the PeopleNEW YORK – Nobel laureate Amartya Sen
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suggested that famines do not occur in democracies, because accountable governments will do everything they can to avoid mass starvation.
He has announced a spate of ambitious initiatives – one a month, as promised in his first speech – including sweeping constitutional changes, labor-market reform, and an overhaul of the country’s
famously
inefficient public administration.
Benjamin Franklin
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told the American people that the US Constitution would provide them with “a republic, if you can keep it.”
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell
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admonished President George W. Bush before the Iraq War that, “if you break it, you own it.”
Born in 1952, Abdel-Jalil had taken some tentative steps to establish the rule of law even under Qaddafi, once
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declaring before the Colonel himself that “I make my decisions based on the law.”
The OMT scheme’s success depends on an unlimited capacity to intervene – to do “whatever it takes,” as Draghi
famously
put it.
John Maynard Keynes was not off by much when he
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predicted in 1930 that the human race's “economic problem, the struggle for subsistence," was likely to be “solved, or be at least within sight of solution, within a hundred years."
In the best case, they will be able to “ride the wave,” as Alan Greenspan
famously
did in the 1990s, though more inflation is likely this time.
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