Quotes About Policy

Brain drain is hard to reverse

Most of the tension in life will take place when the one who reduces and fragilizes (say the policy maker) invokes rationality.

3) The regulator's incentive to make complicated regulations in order to subsequently sell his "expertise" to the private sector.

shows no evidence that raising the general level of education raises income at the level of a country.

é uma grande lenda acreditar que o planejamento ajuda as corporações: com efeito, vimos que o mundo é aleatório e imprevisível demais para que uma política seja baseada na visibilidade do futuro. O que sobrevive vem da interação entre alguma aptidão e as condições ambientais.

the world is too random and unpredictable to base a policy on visibility of the future.

There was a danger that the Germans would implement a scorched-earth policy when they withdrew their 350,000 troops, as they had done when leaving Italy.

because no bill was, or would ever be, brought to a scythe.

Holding onto a sound policy through thick and thin is both extraordinarily difficult and extraordinarily important work. This is why investors can benefit from developing and sticking with sound investment policies and practices. The cost of infidelity to your own commitments can be very high. An

Eight years before, after a tumultuous election campaign, Mallory had defeated an inept and unpopular but liberal President by tactics that people like the dean regarded as kicking a man when he was down: he had pointedly ignored an appalling personal scandal that swirled round the incumbent and dwelled caustically on the man's virtually unbroken string of disastrous policy mistakes.

And because my employers agree with me, and they're the government, you're outvoted.

And because this is now a political problem, the usual political syllogism applies: (a) is a problem: Something Must Be Done, (b) is Something, Therefore (b) Must Be Done.

Organizations are not human beings and they don't obey the same priorities. They're hives. Like the bank you worked for, I suppose, but you were too specialized, working at too low a level to see the politics going on around you. Hives run on emergent consensus and policy.

Good policy uses incentives to channel behavior toward some desired outcome. Bad policy either ignores incentives, or fails to anticipate how rational individuals might change their behavior to avoid being penalized.

Good government makes a market economy possible. Period. And bad government, or no government, dashes capitalism against the rocks, which is one reason that billions of people live in dire poverty around the globe.

As former Fed governor Kevin Warsh has said, "Economics, and the conduct of monetary policy, after all, is not physics.

We want the impossibility set: the benefits of free-flowing capital without the disruptions; the flexibility of floating exchange rates without the unpredictability; and the ability to adapt monetary policy to domestic needs without the headaches caused when other countries do the same.

In general, economists tend to favor taxes that are broad, simple, and fair. A simple tax is easily understood and collected;

In the end millions (some state upward of three million, mostly children) had died, mainly from starvation due to the federal government of Nigeria's blockade policies.

Nationalism, the revolutionary theorist Rosa Luxemburg warned, is always a tool used to betray the working class. It is, she wrote, "an instrument of counterrevolutionary class policy."76 It unleashes powerful forms of indoctrination.

If a debt crisis results from government profligacy and mismanagement, rather than from a market failure, it is true that the central bank should not intervene.

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

I'm in the government to make sure that if there's an opportunity to make peace, it won't be missed.

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