"Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor."

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Source : Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: rich nations, poor policies, and the threat to the developing world”, Century

Ha-Joon Chang

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“Don't look over your shoulder and don't use or abuse others to get ahead. Keep your eyes focused on your goals and keep working for what you believe in and what you want to accomplish.”

Source : Doctorate Award Speech at Kean University, New Jersey, 2004.
“Millionaires don't use astrology...the billionaires do.”
“With the first kid, you micromanage it, making sure there's no hair out of place when it goes off to school. But by the third kid, it's more like, "Oh, you want to wear a splatter-painted, Hard Rock CafÃ© T-shirt for seven days in a row and not brush your hair? Go for it. Be who you want to be."”
“We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.”

Source : John Dos Passos (1934). “Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights”
“Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.”
“For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.”
“When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?”

Source : "What if there were no minimum wage?" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. February 24, 2013.

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