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Danh ngôn của Paul Samuelson (Sứ mệnh: 7)

Good questions outrank easy answers.
Today we see how utterly mistaken was the Milton Friedman notion that a market system can regulate itself... Everyone understands now, on the contrary, that there can be no solution without government.
In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching.
I can't think of a president who has been overburdened by a knowledge of economics.
It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle.
Economics is not an exact science. It's a combination of an art and elements of science. And that's almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we're improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them.
I decided that there was only one place to make money in the mutual fund business, as there is only one place for a temperate man to be in a saloon: behind the bar and not in front of it.
The very name of my subject, economics, suggests economizing or maximizing. But Political Economy has gone a long way beyond home economics.