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The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.

Robert Lucas, Jr.
Thinking, Economics, Economist
"On the Mechanics of Economic Development". Journal of Monetary Economics, 22, 1988.
The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.