Robert Lucas, Jr. famous quotes

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The potential gains from improved stabilization policies are on the order of hundredths of a percent of consumption, perhaps two orders of magnitude smaller than the potential benefits of available supply-side fiscal reforms.
-- Robert Lucas, Jr.

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Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.
-- Robert Lucas, Jr.

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The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard to think of anything else
-- Robert Lucas, Jr.

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Solitude is an essential quality of wilderness.
-- Robert Lucas, Jr.

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Most trails can be fairly simple.
-- Robert Lucas, Jr.

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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.
In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.
Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.
What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
I would prefer a public option that would be a competitive option that would allow people to buy into a Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which is a series of private plans.

Robert Lucas, Jr. famous quotes

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