Economics Quotes

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

Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

I have never read it. You should not waste your time.

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

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

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

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

Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

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

Economics is too important to leave to the economists.

Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

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.

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

Inflation is like toothpaste. Once it's out, you can hardly get it back in again.

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

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

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

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

Every man lives by exchanging.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

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.

Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole.

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.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

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

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

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

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.

Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without an internalised sense of duty and morality, are tragically mistaken.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?

Economics is not a morality play.

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.

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

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

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.