Dialogues, by Jerry Brown: on Budget & Economy

Noam Chomsky: 1920s and 1950s were both called the "End of History"

The book "The End of Ideology" in 1959 argued that ideological issues were over: they finally understood everything, more or less. Economics, incidentally, were saying the same thing. Paul Samuelson, the leading economist at the time, was writing that it would take an idiot not to be able to maintain a steady 3% growth with very low unemployment. From now on it was just a matter of tinkering. Well, a couple of years later the economy had totally changed, the country was up in arms and there was tremendous ferment. These cycles go on and on.