Economics Quotes - Page 8

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.

While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.

Software engineering economics.

most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.

Economics spreads happiness.

We have one asset, and that's people.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.

Only a true faith that applies God’s Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

The linear, mechanistic view of the world which pervades orthodox economics is simply not capable of capturing the richness and complexity of the rhythms and fluctuations of developed economies.

By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.

The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

I've always had an interest in geopolitics and macroeconomics.

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.