1,161 Quotes About Economics

  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

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  • Author James Tobin
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    At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory.

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  • Author Semyon Vainshtok
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    We have overfed Europe with oil. Every economics textbook says that surplus supply lowers prices. But we can't reduce supply -- all our exports are oriented toward Europe.

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  • Author Simone Weil
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    What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

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  • Author Alan Blinder
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    'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.

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