1,161 Quotes About Economics

  • Author Wilhelm Röpke
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    The market economy is not everything. It must find its place in a higher order of things which is not ruled by supply and demand, free prices, and competition. It must be firmly contained within an all-embracing order of society in which the imperfections of and harshness of economic freedom are corrected by law and in which man is not denied conditions of life appropriate to his nature.

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  • Author Gregory Clark
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    The argument is instead that it rewarded with economic and hence reproductive success a certain repertoire of skills and dispositions that were very different from those of the pre-agrarian world, such as the ability to perform simple repetitive tasks hour after hour, day after day. There is nothing natural or harmonic, for example, in having a disposition to work even when all the basic needs of survival have been achieved.

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  • Author Pedro Cavalcanti Ferreira
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    A adesão de um estilo discursivo e não matemático teria levado à formação de 'escolas de desenvolvimento construídas sobre metáforas sugestivas, particularismo institucional, raciocínio interdisciplinar e uma postura relaxada no tocante à consistência interna. O resultado foram alguns belos escritos, alguns insights inspiradores e (na minha opinião) um beco sem saída intelectual.

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