Economics Quotes - Page 7

Science advances funeral by funeral

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.

One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.

I don't think you can spend yourself rich.

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.

The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market

I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will tell you what can happen under any given condition — and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's, too.

The Gods are unkind and deny us knowledge of what the future holds

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

Economics is really politics in disguise.

...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.