Entrepreneurs discern wise investments from those that are unproductive with the help of economic calculation.

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In so far as anybody's done any economic calculation, it demonstrates that we certainly wouldn't be better off in Nafta.

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If spending, however, is funded by coercion and apart from economic calculation, scarce goods are wasted, and the result is relative impoverishment, prolonged recession, and unemployment.

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At a very basic level it was an economic calculation.

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That is partly an economic calculation.

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Sober experts both inside and outside the administration realise that the economic good news cannot last forever, and that the pendulum of exponential calculation can easily swing back.

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Spengler attributes this poke in the eye to a cold calculation by the Pacific rim types that the United States is no longer the region's dominant economic power.

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The calculation for Angela Merkel and for Germany has to be this: If all of Germany's economic might were thrown behind saving the euro would it be sufficient or could it end up de-railing the German economy?

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