Economics Quotes - Page 11

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

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

I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics.

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

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics

Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

The personal is not just political. It is also economic.

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.

Moore's law is really about economics.

Wealth is knowledge and its origin is evolution

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

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.

The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation.

When men are employed they are best contented.

It is not the responsibility of the Federal Bank - nor would it be appropriate - to protect lenders and investors from the consequences of their decisions

Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.

This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.