Quote of the day
The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.
Arthur Melvin Okun
Born: November 28, 1928
Died: March 23, 1980 (aged 51)
Bio: Arthur Melvin "Art" Okun was an American economist. He served as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers between 1968 and 1969. Before serving on the C.E.A.
Known for:
- Equality and efficiency, the big tradeoff (1975)
- Prices and quantities
- The political economy of prosperity (1970)
- Economics for policymaking
- Curing Chronic Inflation (1978)







