Friday, April 3, 2009

So Many Friedmans (And Krugmans), So Little Time

If you are like me, you will probably have quite a long reading list, perhaps over at Goodreads.com, and you are not sure what to read first. Here is a little quiz which might help you. Multiple guess!



Which Friedman said it? Tom or Milton?

  • We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
  • If you don`t visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.
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Who said it? Milton Friedman or Paul Krugman?

  • “But the vitriol also reflects the fact that many of the people at the Republican National Convention, for all their flag-waving, hate America. They want a controlled, monolithic society; they fear and loathe our nation's freedom, diversity and complexity.
  • A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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Who said it? Milton Friedman or Paul Krugman?

  • “The fundamental fact of American politics - and I've sharpened my view on this since last year and the hardcover edition of the book - is that we've got an alliance between the religious right and the accumulators of great wealth. Those are the people who are running things.”
  • “What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system”
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Which Friedman said it? Tom or Milton?
  • I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research
  • The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
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Which Friedman said it? Tom or Milton?

  • The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.
  • Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Which Friedman said it? Tom or Milton?

  • The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism. (Okay, so can we start acting on that now, please?)
  • Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Who said it? Milton Friedman or Paul Krugman?

  • “Those tax cuts, rather than the spending binge, are the primary cause of the (federal) deficit.” (Wow, did a nobel prize winning economist SERIOUSLY say that?)
  • “The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.” (Now you're talking!)
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So who should you read? The author who prefers FREEDOM? Or those more interested in creating TYRANNY? The answer of course, is ALL OF THE ABOVE. How else are you going to know what is going on in this crazy world?

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