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![Barbara Bergmann Quote - [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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/blue-economists-advice-is-something-like-pate.jpg)
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![Barbara Bergmann Quote - [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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/brown-economists-advice-is-something-like-pate.jpg)
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To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other.
BARBARA BERGMANN
[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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