1,161 Quotes About Economics

The chief thing which the common-sense individual wants is not satisfactions for the wants he had, but more, and better wants.

Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm to our environment. It's about doing more good towards our Planet Earth, Humanity, and future generations (Andres Vicente Durandeau Lalanne, Founder of the Ubuntu Group Ltd.)

Calvin did for the bourgeoisie of the sixteenth century what Marx did for the proletariat of the nineteenth.

Usually, when things suck, it’s because they suck in a way that’s a Nash equilibrium.

It is a human tendency to take our recent past and project it in a linear fashion into the future. We are hardwired to think linearly and to expect any accelerations in the rate of change to be consistent, for exponential rates of change are hard for humans to comprehend. The next twenty years, we figure, will more or less unfold as the last twenty years have. Not a chance.

Hoe kan het toch dat iets zo waardeloos als een diamant zo waardevol is, en iets zo waardevol als water zo waardeloos?

... the human tendency to be seduced by a theory that supposedly explains everything.

More pervasive and corrosive are the nearly invisible forms of time denial that are built into the very infrastructure of our society. For example, in the logic of economics, in which labor productivity must always increase to justify higher wages, professions centered on tasks that simply take time - education, nursing, or art performance - constitute a problem because they cannot be made significantly more efficient.

... cooptation of the rhetoric of beauty, morality and duty into the realm of commercial life set in train the development of other rhetorics designed to sell growing numbers of products that promised both surface change and inner transformation.