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[Economists’ advice] is something like patent medicine – people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it won’t work, but they continue to buy the brand whose flavor they like.

Barbara Bergmann

It is remarkable how little agitation there is against those practices.
BARBARA BERGMANN

Against Agitation Practice Remarkable
The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.
BARBARA BERGMANN

Hundred Revolution Rise Straightforward Women
To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other.
BARBARA BERGMANN

Different Job Peculiar
The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the market in which the workers find jobs, and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.
BARBARA BERGMANN

Hazzard Payment Physical Supervision tenure Worker
[Economists’ advice] is something like patent medicine – people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it won’t work, but they continue to buy the brand whose flavor they like.
BARBARA BERGMANN

Advice Medicine Patient People Something
[On affirmative action:] Universities give a boost in admissions for other factors besides race, factors that bring no social benefit, such as athletic ability, celebrity of parents, and alumni connections.
BARBARA BERGMANN

Giving Practice Race
Whether the flavour of economic advice you like is conservative or liberal, you will find that flavour available from some ‘reputable’ economist, since there is no single standard to which all ‘reputable’ economists must repair.
BARBARA BERGMANN

Advice Conservative Economic Repair
The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress.
BARBARA BERGMANN

Book Two War

[Economists’ advice] is something like patent medicine – people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it won’t work, but they continue to buy the brand whose flavor they like.

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[Economists’ advice] is something like patent medicine – people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it won’t work, but they continue to buy the brand whose flavor they like.

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