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Was Keynes the First Public Choice Economist?

Posted in History, Politics, Public Choice on Aug 2nd, 2007

Here’s more from Keynes:

It is the method of modern statesman to talk as much folly as the public demand and to practise no more of it than what is compatible with what they have said, trusting that such folly in action as must wait on folly in word will soon disclose itself as such, and furnish […]

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Guess Who Said It?

Posted in History, Politics on Jul 30th, 2007

Hint: It is not President Bush the Second.
Does not this provision reduce the UN (my edit), so far as concerns an early reconsideration of any of the terms of the Peace Treaty, into a body merely for wasting time? If all the parties to the Treaty are unanimously of opinion that it requires alteration in […]

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