Economics Quotes - Page 4

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.

Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.

What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

Every man lives by exchanging.

It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.

The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties

I'm not a macroeconomics person.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.