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William Vickrey

"Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours."

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Donna Grant

"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."

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Donna Grant

"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."

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Donna Grant

"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."

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Donna Grant

"When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace."

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Donna Grant

"That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other."

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Donna Grant

"We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job."

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Donna Grant

"I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces."

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Donna Grant

"I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working."

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Donna Grant

"Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return."

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Donna Grant

"I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job."

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William Vickrey
"Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed."

Performance

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William Vickrey
"Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain."

Gain

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William Vickrey
"The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure."

Policy

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William Vickrey
"The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt."

Government

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William Vickrey
"Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level."

Economy

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William Vickrey
"I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent."

Job

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William Vickrey
"Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation."

Economy

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William Vickrey
"It's insane to try to balance the budget."

Balance

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William Vickrey
"Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief."

Balance

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William Vickrey
"This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics."

Economy

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