1,161 Quotes About Economics

The debt crisis – how much more suffering must humanity endure until we realise we are only at war with numbers?

There is no longer any logical, scientific reason not to give people free access to the things they need to live. In fact, continuing not to do so in such an enlightened age is tantamount to barbarism.

Let us not underestimate the ingenuity of the poor people in converting what they get from the relief worker to what they want. And that’s just wasteful. They would be far better off if we just gave them the money and let them spend it.

Your VISION and your self-willingness is the MOST powerful elements to conquer your goal

Once you get people addicted to alcohol in college, you make it almost impossible for them to stop drinking - Milton Friedman. Just kidding. I said it. But inspired by Milton. hehe.

Political choice, ideology and agency are everywhere across this narrative with highly consequential results, not merely as disturbing factors but as vital reactions to the huge volatility and contingency generated by the malfunctioning of the giant “systems” and “machines” and apparatuses of financial engineering.

Capitalism celebrates the freedom of disparity, Communism propagandises the equality of misery.

The Spanish economic system is like a game of musical chairs, in which there are only half as many seats as there are performers.

As they define economics in terms of its methodology, most economics books assume that there is only one right way of 'doing' economics -that is, the Neoclassical approach. The worst examples won't even tell you that there are other schools of economics than the Neoclassical one.