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The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

— Henry Hazlitt Economics in One Lesson (1946)

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In brief, on net balance, machines, technological improvements, economies and efficiency do not throw men out of work.

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