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The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
— David Korten
Wealth is knowledge and its origin is evolution
— Eric Beinhocker
When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.
— Edmund Phelps
I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics.
— Milton Friedman
I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.
— Lars Peter Hansen
Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.
— Robert J. Shiller
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.
— Paul Krugman
Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.
— Gena Rowlands
The better the script, the less money there is. That's just the economics of the studio system.
— Peter Hedges
We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.
— Denis Healey
Inflation is the senility of democracies.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Violence and fraud can create no right.
— Algernon Sidney
No one is entertained by economics.
— Michael Moore
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[I]ntrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.
— Erik Adigard
It's easy to make money when you have a lot of it.
— Max Tegmark
At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper.
— Sebastian Coe
International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
— Alexander McCall Smith
I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books.
— Esther Duflo
A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.
— Charles Wheelan
Economics has become as riveting as politics.
— Tina Brown
Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.
— Isabel Paterson
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
— Quincy Jones
Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.
— Amit Kalantri
The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.
— Frederic Bastiat
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
— Frederic Bastiat
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
— Murray N. Rothbard
Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge.
— Dharma Kumar
That's because they don't know,' said Tyburn. 'It's like economics. Everybody's got a theory, and some people make it their religion.
— Ben Aaronovitch
Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism
— Nathan Rosenberg
I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.
— Clive Granger
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[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.
— Milton Friedman
We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.
— Molly Ivins
The most basic law of economics?that one cannot get something for nothing.
— Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod
I think the very best attitude for anyone investing in the stock market is to make up his mind to lose money.- The Duchess Gloriana XII — Leonard Wibberley
Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.
— George Meany
Despite its scientificpretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science — Robert Kuttner
Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.
— William Easterly
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
— Murray N. Rothbard
Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.
— Christopher Caudwell
It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.
— John Maynard Keynes
This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.
— William Vickrey
Microeconomists are wrong about specific things and macroeconomists are wrong about things in general!
— Yoram Bauman
Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.
— Eugene Hutz
Economics is a form of brain damage,
— Hazel Henderson
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
— George Bernard Shaw
The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Organized money hates meand I welcome their hatred! — Franklin D. Roosevelt
An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources.
— Bryant McGill
To sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.
— Derek Thompson
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.
— Steven D. Levitt
Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.
— Gregory Benford
Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation
— Francis Fukuyama
Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence.
— Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.
— George Stephenson
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
— George Bernard Shaw
This is known as the Pareto criterion and forms the basis for all judgements on social improvements in Neoclassical economics today.
— Ha-Joon Chang
First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.
— Martin Feldstein
Commercial organisations that operate responsibly have benefitted by increased revenues of 682% compared to 166% for those that don't
— John P. Kotter
David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.
— John Stossel
To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?
— Richard D. Wolff
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By and large, the poor do not want some small life. They don't want to game the system or eke out an existence; they want to thrive and contribute.
— Matthew Desmond
Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.
— Margaret Thatcher
The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
— Nikita Khrushchev
More than any other colonial founder, Oglethorpe made himself one of the people, promoting collective effort.
— Nancy Isenberg
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie.
— Neal Boortz
Even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.
— Frank Knight
Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao