…strive for the greatest good for greatest number solution that you can achieve through democratic means. But at least start from the goal and concede only what you have to….

…the bargain overall? Many Chinese businesses are still learning new standards. 5. Chinese leaders are taking a big gamble. And Chinese society is taking a big hit overall, with great…

…(ASIDE: Reagan is often treated as though he was a great philosopher. What he was was a master of sound bites and a person with rigid views that were self-contradictory….

…the high degree of mathematical formalism now so characteristic of economics. Yet the Nobel Prize Committee has done a great service to economics and the greater social-scientific community. When a…

…are clearly budgetary). It sounds great. The only problem is that the new reformed system would both depend on private health insurance companies and bankrupt the private health insurance companies….

…more enthusiastic, more idealistic, sees greater possibilities after 36 years than when we were elected. He was 30 years-old when he was elected; I was 29 years-old. And you’d think…

…greater role in health care markets, and now she says it is drug company innovation. It’s obvious that she is just throwing everything out and seeing what sticks and she…

…guy who was president during the Crash of 1929 and under whom the Great Depression unfolded. Now, I’ve been thinking about how conservatives and libertarians demonize FDR and his economic…

…who chose double-cycle billing to be included within the terms and conditions of his or her credit card contract. It was a great moment. If the status quo is about…

…two things, then the spectacular growth in power of financial markets (at the expense of government, of corporations, of commercial banks) over the past three or four decades was great…