Economics Quotes - Page 14

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

The surtax payers, having been soaked, have found a way to get out of the rain.

Economics is on the side of humanity now.

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

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

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics.

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday they transform the passage of time and analyze the economics and politics of the instruments of living.

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

No one should have to get a PhD in economics to survive in this economy.

Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some of these unconscious things that we don't have a handle on at all.

On one project I was hanging out with Brad Pitt, and Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carrel, and Christian Bale, and trying to explain economics to them for a movie I'm an advisor on.

Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible

Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.

Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.

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?