The contrafactual history is what it would have been the other way. Think of the Kennedy triumph in the missiles crisis. Worked out fine. Khrushchev blinked and so forth. The other road, you don't want to think too hard about. You could have had nuclear missiles wiping out a tenth of the globe.
タグ: road, think, you, history

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The history of the twentieth century - America's century! - has been pretty much a history of rising prices.
タグ: rising, pretty, america, history
Let those who will - write the nation's laws - if I can write its textbooks.
タグ: nation, who, i-can, will
Things swept so badly that I had distrust - after 1967, let's say - of American Keynesianism. For better or worse, U.S. Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian.
タグ: things, ahead, better, i-am
It is dead wrong about necessary surplus of winnings over losings.
タグ: over, about, wrong, dead
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.
タグ: think, research, age, myself
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