If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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No analysis of the limits of economic freedom or the uses of coercion by government, labor unions, or organizations of any kind can do justice to the complexity of the subject without taking account of the distinction between collective and noncollective goods.
― Mancur Olson
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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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No analysis of the limits of economic freedom or the uses of coercion by government, labor unions, or organizations of any kind can do justice to the complexity of the subject without taking account of the distinction between collective and noncollective goods.
― Mancur Olson
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Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
― Henry S. Haskins
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A theory of power has long been the Holy Grail for political science, but the Grail has not been found.
― Mancur Olson
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Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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The spontaneous individual optimization that drives the theories with which I began is important, but it is not enough by itself. If spontaneous Coase‐style bargains, whether through laissez-faire or political bargaining and government, eliminated socially wasteful predation and obtained the institutions that are needed for a thriving market economy, then there would not be so many grossly inefficient and poverty-stricken societies.
― Mancur Olson
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Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
― Henry S. Haskins
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