Every Good Cause Is Worth Some Inefficiency.

It Is Not Easy To Get Rich In Las Vegas, At Churchill Downs, Or At The Local Merrill Lynch Office.

We're A Me-me-me Generation. We're Borrowing The Savings Of Every Nation In The World. We're ... Piling Up A Big Tab. Now, I May Think We're Too Big To Have A Run On Us. You May Think That. But It's Possible That God Does Not.

I Couldn't Reconcile What I Was Being Taught At The University Of Chicago, The Lectures And The Books I Was Being Assigned, With What I Knew To Be True Out In The Streets.

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.

Our Ideal Society Finds It Essential To Put A Rent On Land As A Way Of Maximizing The Total Consumption Available To The Society. ...pure Land Rent Is In The Nature Of A 'surplus' Which Can Be Taxed Heavily Without Distorting Production Incentives Or Efficiency. A Land Value Tax Can Be Called 'the Useful Tax On Measured Land Surplus'.