Steven Landsburg famous quotes

03-28-2025

Economic policies command bipartisan support only when they're incoherent.
-- Steven Landsburg

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It is something of a miracle that individual selfish decisions (in a market economy) must lead to a collectively efficient outcome.
-- Steven Landsburg

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Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary.
-- Steven Landsburg

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A well-known mathematician once told me that the great thing about liking both math and sex was that he could do either one while thinking about the other.
-- Steven Landsburg

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I personally feel that I should support people who are doing good work and people should also support such good work.
It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life than to rebel against those who have no other wish than to avoid disease. Moreover, a policy of laissez faire in this sphere is not only cruelty to the individual guiltless victims but also to the nation as a whole... If the Churches were to declare themselves ready to take over the treatment and care of those suffering from hereditary diseases, we should be quite ready to refrain from sterilizing them.
I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.
Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it.
Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.
Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system.
All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.

Steven Landsburg famous quotes

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