Citas de Alan Blinder

• Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

  Alan Blinder

  Book, Teaching, Multiple Choice

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• The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

  Alan Blinder

  Bankers, Investing, Lasts

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• 'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

  Alan Blinder

  Law, Influence, Economics

  "New ball game, same old team" by Faisal Islam, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2004.

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• If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

  Alan Blinder

  Hands, Giving, Trying

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• In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate headquarters. And there would be an inventory pileup. And then - bam - businesses would react, sometimes violently, by cutting production.

  Alan Blinder

  Cutting, Would Be, Inventory

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• Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

  Alan Blinder

  Democracy, Public Opinion, Input

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• There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

  Alan Blinder

  Mean, Next, Kind

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• Y no cabe duda de que el maestro manejó la batuta del presidente con extraordinaria habilidad. Su trayectoria estelar sugiere que la única respuesta correcta a la vieja pregunta de si es mejor tener suerte o ser bueno puede ser: ambas cosas.

  Alan Blinder

  Skills, Age, Lucky

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