George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
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The failure of credit markets is one of the major reasons for underdevelopment.
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Prior to the early 1960s, economic theorists rarely constructed models customized to capture unique institutions or specific market characteristics.
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My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.
My brother Carl became a physicist; I became an economist.
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I've always been a macroeconomist. That's what I teach. And I guess that's what I've been concerned with ever since I've been very young.
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I would never have been a good reporter because I am not accurate regarding facts.
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I think what Bob Shiller and I are doing is we're focusing on macroeconomics and the role of psychology in macroeconomics.
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In the late 1960s, the New Classical economists saw the same weaknesses in the microfoundations of macroeconomics that have motivated me. They hated its lack of rigor. And they sacked it.
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In New Classical theory, periods of declining employment - business cycle downturns - may be caused by an unexpected decline in aggregate demand, which leaves workers mistakenly holding out for nominal wages that exceed the new market-clearing level.
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I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.
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I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.
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The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
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But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.
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Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.