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Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity. -- Paul Ryan
We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101. -- Kurt Bills
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I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics or a non-government organisation when I left. I might well do this later on. I'd love to represent a West Country seat in the House of Commons. -- Ben Elliot
It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101. -- Kurt Bills
For 30 years I've been schooled in everything from government, and economics, to medicine and international relations. But don't be impressed. Someone once said being a general assignment reporter simply means you are equally ignorant about most everything. In other words, I know a little about a lot. -- Lester Holt
The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is a very widely accepted idea. It's in every economics textbook, that's what we teach our undergraduates, and I certainly try to teach them the truth. -- Christina Romer
Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Bitcoin might revolutionise more than money or economics. It could transform the role and nature of government -- Leon Louw
A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. -- Charles Wheelan
I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies. -- Bob Hawke
[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics -- Ludwig von Mises

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