Quotes About Kuttner

#1. We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.

Cornel West

#2. When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.

Henry Kuttner

#3. Smartass Disciple: Please teach me about the truth, master.
Master of Stupidity: Hmmm ... tell me about your sexperience!

Toba Beta

#4. It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.

Robert Kuttner

#5. But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one.

Robert Kuttner

#6. [12] It is dreadful to have mercy as a witness against anyone. His final thesis is one of warning. When you've made an enemy, even of mercy, then you're hosed. Mercy is your only hope. Don't fight it.

Anonymous

#7. Despite its scientific
pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

Robert Kuttner

#8. Not surprisingly, extensive effort in Britain and America goes into finding tax shelter. the system is "efficient" for the shelter industry, not for the economy.

Robert Kuttner

#9. If social security depresses savings rates, it is only because it is unfunded.

Robert Kuttner

#10. God's solution to the problem of evil is his Son Jesus Christ. The Father's love sent his Son to die for us to defeat the power of evil in human nature: that's the heart of the Christian story.

Peter Kreeft

#11. And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

Warren Farrell

#12. The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

Chris Chocola

#13. If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin against free trade?

Robert Kuttner

#14. Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade.

Robert Kuttner

#15. The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#16. In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad.

Robert Kuttner

#17. As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.

Robert Kuttner

#18. The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth.

Robert Kuttner

#19. We are all part of some cosmic pattern, and this pattern works toward good and not evil. It builds and does not destroy. So I shall go on in my search for a race where I can find kinship and happiness.

Henry Kuttner

#20. Donald Rumsfeld should not just be impeached. He should be tried as a war criminal. As for Bush, he can be dispatched by the electorate while we are still a democracy.

Robert Kuttner

#21. To effectively leverage the social graph, every company needs to understand that they need to make their information easily transferable.

Erik Qualman

#22. When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.

Robert Kuttner

#23. Life follows a rhythm and we hold the drum.

Tom Althouse

#24. In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.

Robert Kuttner

#25. What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.

Robert Kuttner

#26. George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other social sciences, sociology, psychology, history, etc. "Don't worry", Stigler said, "they have already have a Nobel Prize in ... Literature"

Robert Kuttner

#27. American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically larger public sector, have fewer government employees per capita than the United States does.

Robert Kuttner

#28. I thought commanders could order anything."
"They can order the moon to turn blue, too, but it doesn't happen. Listen, Ender, commanders have just as much authority as you let them have. The more you obey them, the more power they have over you.

Orson Scott Card

#29. Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.

Robert Kuttner

#30. Before I had my daughter I actually wanted to do something that I could put out for free, like a mixtape, but it wasn't going to really be a mixtape, it was just going to be songs that I wrote and release for free.

Jhene Aiko

#31. Nick's right, you are psychotic. (Talon)
The correct term is sociopathic and yes, I am. But at least I have no delusions about myself. (Zarek)
Meaning? (Talon)
Take your meaning wherever you can find it. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#32. I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me.

Julian Clary

#33. The greater the difficulty of the change, the greater the need for enchantment. Factors that cause friction include expense, risk, and "politics." If a change is a big deal, then it's a big deal to make it happen.

Guy Kawasaki

#34. Technological change is beneficial only when other jobs replace the ones lost.

Robert Kuttner

#35. I wouldn't exactly call it 'cooking' but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it's done.

Devon Werkheiser

#36. It is okay to cut your wife's throat as long as you are rich, famous - and black.

Jeff Cooper