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What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass — August Strindberg

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. — John Kenneth Galbraith

What we learn from behavior economics is that the moment a metric is created it generates an incentive for people to pursue it. — David Amerland

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion. — Joseph Stiglitz

Selling is a painful necessity, buying is what makes it all worthwhile. — Steven E. Landsburg

Good intentions are ubiquitous in politics; what is scarce is accurate beliefs. — Bryan Caplan

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. — Adam Smith

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine the can design. — Friedrich Hayek

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. — Charles Wheelan

For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you do then? I suppose you die. — Frank Lowy

What's good about growth? Why is it intrinsically good? — Yahya Madra

Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity. — Eugene Fama

Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world. — Ronald Coase

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other. — Mahatma Gandhi

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people? — Muhammad Yunus

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics. — Eugene Hutz

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. — Robert Teeter

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

But what has happened is that emotional evolution has not caught up with our economics. We are still haunted by the outdated myth that women need men. — Maggie Young

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics. — John Maynard Keynes

Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended. — Thomas Sowell

I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work. — Barack Obama

What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources. — John Prescott

Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.' — Ben Bernanke

How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it? — Charlie Munger

Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power. — Nick Hanauer

A good accountant is someone who told you yesterday what the economists forcast for tomorrow — Miles Thomas

But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability. — Greg Mortenson

Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible — David Packard

An item is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it — Bianca Baker

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics. — Paul Krugman