The Quotable Bush
"I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his
hand cut off by Saddam Hussein."
-- President Bush, meeting Iraqi amputees at the White House on May 25.
Here's a howler in Marxist economic science:
"The Net Domestic Product represents the sum of incomes (gross) for the
whole of the economy"
- Prof. Jacques Gouverneur, Kapitalisme Vandaag [Capitalism Today], Berchem:
EPO, 1989, p. 280).
Here's a succinct heterodox statement on Ricardian "comparat
. . . The Democrats can argue -- and do -- that the tax cut has put the
government back in a fiscal bind that threatens all manner of worthy
undertakings, from adding a drug benefit to Medicare to building up the
defense budget to increasing aid to education. But that turns out to be a
greater c
"Finally, there's the conservative camp, which includes,
among others, former Congressional Budget Office Director
Robert Reischauer of the Urban Institute, Henry Aaron of
Brookings, and, well, me. After many years of watching
official budget projections turn out to be too rosy and
worrying that w
QUOTABLE QUOTE
Two conditions were paramount to Mexico's
successful adjustment: the acquiescence of its labor
force in the face of drastic cutbacks in wages and
the unique cohesion and control of the Mexican
state. Both can be attributed to Mexico's singular
political system domina
QUOTABLE QUOTE
Two conditions were paramount to Mexico's
successful adjustment: the acquiescence of its labor
force in the face of drastic cutbacks in wages and
the unique cohesion and control of the Mexican
state. Both can be attributed to Mexico's singular
political system domina
