Robert Mundell Quotes

#1. I have never believed that central banks should have rigid inflation targeting. That is not a good thing to stabilize. There is nothing in economic theory to back this.

Robert Mundell

#2. In my early days, I wrote my dissertation for MIT at the London School of Economics, really under James Meade, but my dissertation was five chapters on the theory of capital movement, but it didn't mention money.

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#3. I decided to go to the London School of Economics to write my thesis for MIT, under James Meade, Nobelist with Bertil Ohlin in 1977.

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#4. Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.

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#5. Even if every word was true, and from what you've said I think it is, it doesn't make it any less insensitive.

Jewel E. Ann

#6. I went to the University of Washington in Seattle. This was a very good place to study, and I learned a lot. But it wasn't the right place for my Ph.D.

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#7. How much we owe to good teachers, good education, and good advice!

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#8. It's political glue inside Europe to keep it together - the euro is the best thing going for it since the creation of the common market.

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#9. The U.S. berates China for its exchange rate policy, which Washington doesn't like. But one-sided pressure on China to change its exchange rate is misplaced.

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#10. The whole idea of having a free trade area when you have gyrating exchange rates doesn't make sense at all. It just spoils the effect of any kind of free trade agreement.

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#11. Dreams are sent by God.

Homer

#12. I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.

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#13. What is worth having is worth working for.

Philip Pullman

#14. Apparently being Cinderella isn't so bad after all.

Melissa Kantor

#15. The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.

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#16. It's a lethal thing to suddenly raise taxes.

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#17. The most important initiative you could take to improve the world economy would be to stabilize the dollar-euro rate.

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#18. As an undergraduate at UBC in Canada, I fell in love with economic theory. It was the right choice for me.

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#19. The public is looking for free lunches, and the political competition for votes makes the politicians offer them free lunches.

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#20. Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

Anton Chekhov

#21. The price of gold was fixed at $35 an ounce in 1934, but by the time the U.S. got through the Korean War, the Vietnam war, with all the associated secular inflation, the price level had gone up nearly three times.

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#22. The benefits from a world currency would be enormous.

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