1,161 Quotes About Economics

Globalization is a form of artificial intelligence.

Our knowledge of dynamic processes is necessarily inferior to our ability to describe stationary conditions.

Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights.

He wants to focus on what he calls 'cultural issues.' That makes sense, because when you're going to rob people blind you don't want to have them focus their attention on economic issues.

There is tons of work to be done, and lots of people who would like to do the work. It's just that the economic system is such a grotesque catastrophe that it can't even put together idle hands and needed work, which would be satisfying to the people and which would be beneficial to all of us. That's just the mark of a failed system. The most dramatic mark of it.

Orthodoxy builds a rococo logical palace on loose empirical sand.

But this is your home''Not any longer, my poppet. Women make nests but men make bequests and scatter them. Heigh-ho!

In my experience, economists rarely believe passionately in, or care passionately for, the free market. They are generally more concerned to reveal the market's imperfections, to further their own professional importance.

Now, in the modern money economy everything in the nature of a social-economic occurrence consists in human actions and behaviour.