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 Margaret Thatcher
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The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom
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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 Brad Wilson
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If I can do something with economics or I can be a musician, I think I will be a musician.
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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 Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
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In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.
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- Author Al Nichol
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Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.
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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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