The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.

Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way

Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.

The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in a sewer.

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.