Economic Quotes - Page 13

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

owning capital is not a productive activity.

My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.

We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort.

Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society.

Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

We survived the 1980's. Back then, the economic program was called 'trickle down.' That actually meant they were pissing on you. How the whole theory goes was this: 'We have all the money. If we drop some, it's yours. Go for it.'

I am not confident that Europe can make it.

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

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.

Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.

We have power not just with our voices, but we have economic power in what we do for a living, too.

A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an extraordinary amount of room for economic inequality, violence and male dominance.

Canadian money is also called the loony. How can you take an economic crisis seriously?

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.

I am convinced that God Himself is tampering with the economic system of the world to reduce us back to Him.

If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.

Politics is a continuation of economics by other means

The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.

Emergent properties result from interactions between individual parts, so it follows that a top down analytical approach that begins with the whole and dissects it into its constituent parts is bound to miss precisely those emergent properties

There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.