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The basic job of policy thinkers is to keep alternatives alive until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable
Drawn from what Milton Friedman said
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- Milton Friedman American economist (1912 to 2006) and 1976 Nobel laureate…
That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.
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↗Capitalism and Freedom (University of Chicago Press, 2002 edition)books.google.com
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