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Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).
There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted
Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.
The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.
...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.
Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics.
We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.
The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.
Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.
The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.
What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.
Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.
Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.
Spread the truth-the laws of economics are like the laws of engineering. One set of laws works everywhere.
Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.
In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.
The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.
The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process
While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.
By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.
My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.
I think economics - and this is what I've tried to impart - has a tremendous amount of human interest in it.
I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics.
You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.
I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.
Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.
Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.
Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.
I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.
A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.
When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.
I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
We shouldn't measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life.
Establishment idiots say the Trump tax cuts only helped the rich. Don't they understand anything about economics?
Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.
If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.
There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.
I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour