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Given that we have rising unemployment, a reduction in minimum-wage rates might bring relief to some unemployed workers.

"Thus, the famous 'one-in-eight' hungry Americans include all Americans living in households that, until 2005, were described as food insecure, but without hunger."

In a few brief years the character of the right wing had been totally transformed: Once basically classical liberal, it had become a global theocratic crusade.

What counts in the market are the externalities that can be derived from intellectual property. How to deal with these externalities is, of course, a different matter.

"Without the historical act of saving, which is now embodied in capital goods, there would be no economy at all."

India's ancient and deep religious traditions, combined with a plethora of historical, cultural, and practical reasons, have fostered an unflinching desire to acquire gold as a means of protecting one's wealth.

"The marginal cost of downloads is approaching zero. The access is approaching universal. The capacity for copying is infinite. And the results are everlasting."

Today, the main response to ill-effects of past interventions seems to be to create even greater ones.

it needs to be noted that the hypothesis of the superneutrality of money is expressive of the empiricist-positivist approach of modelling economics according to the natural sciences.

"Some illnesses are not insurable without destroying the insurance system."