1,161 Quotes About Economics

  • Author Frédéric Bastiat
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    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.

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  • Author Gary Becker
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    Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

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  • Author Gary Becker
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    I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

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  • Author Jeb Bush
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    Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics.

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

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  • Author Scott Boras
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    It wasn't just economics that went into this decision. It was really about winning. With his skills and the skills of the Yankees, it was really a good fit.

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  • Author Tony Blair
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    The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community

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

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