Jane Jacobs Quotes About Economics

Quotes about: Economics

• Nations are political and military entities, and so are blocs of nations. But it doesn't necessarily follow from this that they are also the basic, salient entities of economic life or that they are particularly useful for probing the mysteries of economic structure, the reasons for rise and decline of wealth. Indeed, the failure of national governments and blocs of nations to force economic life to do their bidding suggests some sort of essential irrelevance.

  Jane Jacobs

  Military, Irrelevance, Government

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “Cities and the Wealth of Nations”, p.39, Vintage

• observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.

  Jane Jacobs

  Reality, Development, Economics

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “Cities and the Wealth of Nations”, p.10, Vintage

• The primary conflict, I think, is between people whose interests are with already well-established economic activities, and those whose interests are with the emergence of new economic activities.

  Jane Jacobs

  Thinking, People, Conflict

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Economy of Cities”, p.249, Vintage

• Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop.

  Jane Jacobs

  Add, Definitions, Kind

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Economy of Cities”, p.49, Vintage

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