"Recession Economics," New York Review of Books, Volume 29, Number 1 (4 February 1982)
“If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).”
"Recession Economics," New York Review of Books, Volume 29, Number 1 (4 February 1982)
Context: Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy— what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.
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American economist and diplomat 1908–2006Related quotes
“MAY THE FORCE—”
“—FEED YOUR HORSE!”
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By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: Love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.
“Why should I feed my prisoners when I don't have enough to feed my peasants?”
Ayittey, p. 109
“All around the circle, feeding on the green, green grass were fat and happy horses…”
Black Elk Speaks (1961)
Letter after joining the Army (1939), quoted by Peggy Noonan in "From 'Eternity' to Here" in The Wall Street Journal (25 May 2006) http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110008422
“Relentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.”
Preface to the Second Edition, p. xxii
The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003)