26 Quotes About Economist
- Author Amit Kalantri
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If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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In any sane society, a farmer is a billion times more important than an economist.
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- Author Friedrich A. von Hayek
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Lo básico es dejar amplio margen para elaprendizaje
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- Author Virchand Raghavji Gandhi
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In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)
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- Author Peter Block
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Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.
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- Author Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr
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The distribution of wealth and income is primarily the role and responsibility and freedom of individual people and businesses through their voluntary economic interaction with other people and businesses. And their voluntary exchange of economic value through products, services, and ideas. In this way, social mobility is maximized and a fluid class structure allows for both upward and downward economic movements; this is social justice.
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- Author David Graeber
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When an economist attempts to prove that it is "irrational" to vote in national elections (because the effort expended outweighs the likely benefit to the individual voter), they use the term because they do not wish to say "irrational for actors for whom civic participation, political ideals, of the common good are not values in themselves, but who view public affairs only in terms of personal advantage.
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- Author Jason Hickel
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Economists have always recognised that some kind of initial accumulation was necessary for the rise of capitalism. Adam Smith called this ‘previous accumulation’, and claimed that it came about because a few people worked really hard and saved their earnings– an idyllic tale that still gets repeated in economics textbooks. But historians see it as naïve. This was no innocent process of saving. It was a process of plunder.
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- Author Lawrence H. Summers
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The investment in the education of girls may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.
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