One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.

Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.

You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

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.

I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

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

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.

The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?

I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").

It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.

Intrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.

Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge.

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

Commercial organisations that operate responsibly have benefitted by increased revenues of 682% compared to 166% for those that don't

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility

Trickle-down economics does not work, and tax reform should not be defined as partisan tax cuts for the wealthy and huge corporations.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.

Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.

I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

You need to invest in areas where you can be the market leader because then you get a disproportionate share of the economics when you are.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.

It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.

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