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SOME FINAL QUOTES (AND FEW NOTES *) :
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"Tim Harford was the first Peter Martin Fellow
at the Financial Times
and writes many of the
'Dear Economist ' columns in the FT Magazine."
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"Here's a little secret that Starbucks doesn't want you to know: They
will serve you a better, stronger cappuccino if you want one, and they
will charge you less for it. Ask for it in any Starbucks and the barista
will comply without batting an eye. The puzzle is to work out why… This
secret cappuccino is cheaper, too -- at my local Starbucks, $2.35
instead of $2.65. But why does this cheaper, better drink -- along with
its sisters, the short latte and the short coffee -- languish
unadvertised?" -- Tim Harford, "Starbucks Economics, Solving the mystery
of the elusive 'short' cappuccino." Posted Friday, Jan. 6, 2006, at 6:28
AM ET |
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"Advertising is 'the lubricant for the free-enterprise system.' -
Leo-Arthur Kelmenson (1976), quoted in Michael McKenna, 'The Stein & Day
Dictionary of Definitive Quotations,' 1983, New York: Stein & Day
Publishing Co., p. 11."
"'Advertising is the `wonder` in Wonder Bread.' - Jef I. Richards
(1995), advertising professor, The University of Texas at Austin."
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"To produce capital, people must forgo the opportunity to produce goods
for current consumption. People can choose whether to spend their time
picking apples or planting apple trees. In the first case there are more
apples today; in the second, more apples tomorrow." - Steven Landsburg,
(Price Theory and Applications, 1992), p. 581." | Gus Stavros Center,
Florida State University
* NOTE: Does this mean that everyone's who is unemployed or
underemployed
should forgo 'consuming economics' to 'plant' more 'economic institutions' and 'blogs'?
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"Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will
be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases,
the goal is exchange." -- Jean-François Lyotard, "The Postmodern
Condition," 1979
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"The move to the post-capitalist society began shortly after World War
II. I first wrote of the 'employee society' even before 1950. Ten years
later around 1960, I coined the terms 'knowledge work' and 'knowledge
worker.'" -- Peter F. Drucker, "Post-Capitalist Society," 1993
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"The important aspect of progress for Hayek is the acquisition and use
of knowledge." -- Anthony de Crespigny, "F.A. Hayek: Freedom for
Progress," 1975
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New Macdonald had a webite, E-I-E-I-O
And on his website he had a blog, E-I-E-I-O
With a "blog-blog" here and a "blog-blog" there
Here a "blog" there a "blog"
Everywhere a "blog-blog"
New Macdonald had a website, E-I-E-I-O
(Want to see New Macdonald's farm? click here)
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"As best I can determine, David Bach's [author of 'The Automatic
Millionaire'] recipe for success boils downs to these three points.
1) Stop drinking lattes they're too expensive.
2) Become a phenomenon much
like Bach himself. Books, workbook, seminars, TV appearances.
3) Write a
book and get a chartered bank to buy 100,000 copies and hand it out free
at branches across Canada."
-- Globe and Mail newspaper, "The secret to
getting rich is writing about getting rich," Jan. 26, 2005
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"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."
-- Boswell quoting Johnson
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"In response to my posting and Dan Drezner's link and original posting,
Fabio Rojas (a sometime contributor to Marginal Revolution) emails us
both with a outside scholar's view of the landscape: I think Virginia
Postrel only gets one side of the story correct when she writes about
think tanks. Of course, Postrel is correct in saying that many think
tanks are media driven entities. They do specialize in producing
ideologically driven 'research' designed for op-eds, TV, and donors. However, you and Postrel focus on the most visible types of think tanks.
The world of 'think tanks' is extremely diverse, ranging from the Rand
Corporation to the Cato Institute." |
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"'The debate over think tanks' | Read these three posts by Virginia
Postrel (as this link ages, you may need to scroll down or use Google).
This is a difficult topic for me, since I have had dealings with
numerous think tanks and think tank-related entities for almost thirty
years. I sympathize with much of what Virginia has to say, but here are
a few points in the other direction: 1. The existence of think tanks,
and related entities, makes being an academic more attractive…" --
Posted by Tyler Cowen on September 16, 2005, Marginal Revolution
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