Economics Quotes - Page 13

Economy, the poor man's mint.

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

Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive.

I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.

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

The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.

Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.

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

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.

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

Economics is not an exact science.

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent

It is easy to be compassionate with other people's money

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

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

I'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de changer la nature des choses. Il faut les йtudier telles qu'elles sont.

I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not so dogmatic that I wouldn't listen to them.