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The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth.

— Robert Kuttner The Economic Illusion (1984)

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When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.

The Economic Illusion (1984)

In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck — good or bad.

The Economic Illusion (1984)

Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade.

The Economic Illusion (1984)

Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.

The Economic Illusion (1984)

Keynes, like Freud and Marx, deserves to be read in the original, not through the glosses of his lesser disciples.

The Economic Illusion (1984)

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