Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics.

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks.

You know what happiness is: 'Having a little more money than your colleagues.' And that's not so tough in academic life.

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'.

Economists have much to be humble about.

If we made an income pyramid out of a child's blocks, with each layer portraying $1,000 of income, the peak would be far higher than the Eiffel Tower, but almost all of us would be within a yard of the ground.