Economic Quotes - Page 12

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

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

There cannot be prosperity without security.

Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

Economics departments are dominated by Marxism, which is taken straight or on the rocks, in the form of Keynesianism.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.

The most basic law of economics?that one cannot get something for nothing.

How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

Good economics is good politics.

The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

I grew up with free television. Now, it wasn't free, there was these commercials, and so the economic model was driven through commercials and through advertising.

Economics is the continuation of energy/resources by other means.

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

Economic knowledge necessarily leads to liberalism

The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.