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Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

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Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession. ↗

— William Greider

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My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy. ↗

— James Meade

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I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

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We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws. ↗

— Mariano Rajoy

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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy. ↗

— Jack Kemp

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Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families. ↗

— John Freeman

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Education is the best economic policy there is. ↗

— Tony Blair

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You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

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