Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual, I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have not moved in tandem.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

From the top of the bus she could see the vast bowl of London spreading out to the horizon: splendid shops with mannequins in the window, interesting people and already a much bigger world.

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

All The Things I Transformed By My Loving Soul, God, I Really Do Hope ...No One Is Ever Going To Love Them ...Ever Again.Petra Hermans

You only need to lose track of who you are, or who you thought you were supposed to be, so that you end up lying flat on the dirt floor basement of your heart. Do this, Jesus says, and you will live.

I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it.

I need to see my friends or I'm gonna go crazy. I'm not gonna stay home and work.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!