Edmund Phelps Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market. – Edmund Phelps Community Quotes Country Quotes Economics Quotes Employer Quotes Employers Quotes Feels Quotes Labor Quotes Market Quotes Paying Quotes Pressured Quotes Priced Quotes Raise Quotes Teaches Quotes Wages Quotes Workers Quotes At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don’t have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples. Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
ArtLangston Hughes Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art. – Langston Hughes
Ravi Subramanian A writer must experiment with genres. Otherwise, it is a restriction on the craft. – Ravi Subramanian
Ben Sasse As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory. – Ben Sasse
Lisa Edelstein What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don’t have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we’re all really still sorting out. – Lisa Edelstein
Bret Bielema You want your assistants to move up. But you want it to be a hard decision. You want them to only be willing to leave if they’re walking into a dream situation. You don’t want money to ever be a factor. – Bret Bielema
Nathan Englander With each book, I’ve found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I need to be as a writer. – Nathan Englander
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