1,161 Quotes About Economics

A progressive business advancement strategy enriches the businesses capacity to gain momentum in a hostile economy.

The scientists that present at TED confabs needn’t affirm free-market capitalism directly… so long as the implication of their thinking have free-market “consilience”… In fact, TED has become a spectacularly influential force in part through its conciliation of science and libertarian economics, which it then sells to us as entertainment.

Skillfully, and with calculation, the economic problems of Reconstruction were being changed by planters and capitalists to look like problems of politics and social recognition.

The road to bad philosophy is paved with simplistic conceptual identities.

Things are sold for less than it costs to make them. ... lots of business do go bankrupt. The ones that don't haven't actually sold their thing for more than it costs to make. They've just ignored some of their costs. ... they shove some of their production costs off their books.

Americans “are stuck in a society that ensures none of the fundamental opportunities that people need to achieve even basic middle-class comforts. This condemns Americans to an anxiety-ridden battle where a person had better be special, because the alternative is not succeeding at all.

If you support protectionism because you think it’s good for you, you’ve probably just got your economics wrong. But if you support protectionism because you think it’s good for your fellow Americans, at the expense of foreigners, then it seems to me you’ve got your morals wrong too.

Every economic dissertation and discussion reminds one more strongly than the last of the game of croquet Alice played in Wonderland

In the Third World taxation is very low a there is no welfare state, no pensions, and no social security system for the majority of people