George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Economists

• If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Business, Saving

• The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fashion, Money, Men

• Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

  George Bernard Shaw

  God, Jesus, Power

  George Bernard Shaw (1978). “Androcles and the lion: an old fable renovated : definitive text”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mistake, Wonderful, Ends

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