Arthur Melvin Okun quotes
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“Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket”
-- Arthur Melvin Okun -
“The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence, society would thrash about for alternative incentives-some unreliable, like altruism; some perilous like collective loyalty; some intolerable, like coercion or oppression.”
-- Arthur Melvin Okun -
“High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds.”
-- Arthur Melvin Okun
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“But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.”
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Source : Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.355
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