Harvey S. Rosen: Quotes about people

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“In an experiment in Illinois, members of a randomly selected group of unemployed individuals were offered a bonus of $500 if they found a job within 11 weeks and kept that job for four months. On average, people who were offered the bonus received UI for one week less than the control group, and the program saved more on UI benefits than it spent on bonuses.”

Harvey S. Rosen

Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 9, Social Insurance I: Social Security and Unemployment Insurance, p. 197

“If it makes sense to transfer income from rich to poor people within a generation, why shouldn't we transfer income from rich to poor generations?”

Harvey S. Rosen

Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 18, Deficit Finance, p. 435

“Peoples views on how the government should conduct its financial operations are heavily influenced by their political philosophies.”

Harvey S. Rosen

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Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition

“It must be emphasized that free ridership is not a fact; it is an implication of the hypothesis that people maximize a utility function that depends only on their own consumption of goods.”

Harvey S. Rosen

Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 4, Public Goods, p. 64