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the economist Milton Friedman once wrote: ‘Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible

he was an adept speaker on financial and economic issues,

Professor Yochai Benkler, Harvard University, author of The Wealth of Networks

Principles of Economics, an introductory textbook authored by John B. Taylor and Akila Weerapana,

the first economist to recognize the fundamental problem and its relation to the money system was Frederick Soddy, a Nobel laureate and pioneer of nuclear chemistry who turned his attention to economics in the 1920s.

In an environment where the greatest source of wealth will be the ideas you have in your head rather than physical capital alone, anyone who thinks clearly will potentially be rich.

In defiance of the general air of doom and gloom, Keynes predicted that accelerating progress in science and technology would bring about a new age of abundance. By 2030, he suggested that the 'economic problem' would be all but solved, our standard of living would have increased as much as eight times over, and we’d be putting in lazy 15 hour work

10. Favoring Short-Term Gratification over Long-Term Well-Being.

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