Economic Problems Quotes

• I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.

  Amartya Sen

  People, Poverty, Problem

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• Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the ultimate answer to every economic problem lies in some other field.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Lying, Answers, Shade

  "The Economics of Peace". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, p. 252, 1945.

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• Few economic problems, if any, are difficult of solution. The difficulty, all but invariably, is in confronting them. We know what needs to be done; for reasons of inertia, pecuniary interest, passion or ignorance, we do not wish to say so.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Ignorance, Passion, Wish

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• Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Eugenics, Way, Problem

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1963). “Jawaharlal Nehru on Community Development and Panchayati Raj”

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• There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Problem, Economics, Social

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• Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.

  Lucian Freud

  Gambling, Losing, Problem

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the study of how people use limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants and needs should help us to discover how to best utilize the resources we have at our disposal.

  Kurt Bills

  People, Limited Resources, Scarcity

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• As President, I am determined to offer leadership to overcome our current economic problems. My goal is for jobs for all who want to work and economic opportunity for all who want to achieve.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Jobs, Opportunity, Goal

  President Gerald R. Ford's address at a Tulane University Convocation, www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov. April 23, 1975.

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• Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.

  Milton Friedman

  Real, Branches, Problem

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• The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Real, Heart, Religion

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• The more people that understand and are made able to spot liberalism, and then the more people are able to associate liberalism with the problems in their lives, the political problems, the economic problems, the more people can be conditioned and educated to understand that liberalism is the problem, coupled with the ability to spot it, would be the fastest way to eradicate it. It would be really helpful if we had a Republican Party engaged in this.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, People, Political

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

  Billy Crystal

  World, Golden, Problem

  "Billy Crystal Gets Kiss From George Clooney In Oscars Opener" by John Mitchell, www.mtv.com. February 26, 2012.

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• If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems, then I welcome it.

  Evo Morales

  Mean, Justice, Welcome

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first ... [even] blaming the problem on the solution.

  Richard L. Gordon

  Political, Firsts, Blame

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• Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Business, Growth, Climate

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• I do not think that we have psychological and ethical and economic problems. We have human problems, with psychological, ethical and economical aspects, and as many others as you like.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Thinking, Problem, Psychological

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• Where there has been racial hatred, it must be ended. Where there has been tribal animosity, it will be finished. Let us not dwell upon the bitterness of the past. I would rather look to the future, to the good new Kenya, not to the bad old days. If we can create this sense of national direction and identity, we shall have gone a long way to solving our economic problems.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Past, Long, Hatred

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• When you get your self realization or your second birth you become entitled to an awareness by which you can find out the roots of everything. You can find out the roots why people get sick, you can find out why there are incurable diseases, you can find out why there are psychological problems, you can find out why there are moral crisises, you can find out why there are political problems, why there are economic problems.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

  Nirmala Srivastava's speech during the Public Program Day 1 at Audimax University in Vienna, Austria, www.amruta.org. October 12, 1987.

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• We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.' The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.

  Michael Foot

  Mean, Helping Others, Common Purpose

  Michael Foot (1984). “Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society”, HarperCollins

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• The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.

  Benjamin Graham

  Thinking, Ideas, Common Sense

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Preface, p. vii, 1937.

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• With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child should be growing in manhood. With respect to sympathetic curiosity, unbiased responsiveness, and openness of mind, we may say that the adult should be growing in childlikeness.

  John Dewey

  Children, Curiosity, Mind

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.41, 谷月社

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• Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Creativity, Keys, Problem

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• Politics are receiving a lot of attention because we have nothing else to interest us. No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit. So that leaves us without any economic problem whatever, except perhaps some day to have to pay for them. But we are certainly not thinking about that this early.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Thinking, Attention

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• The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Race, Arbitration

  "Dawn of World Peace", in U.S. Bureau of Education Bulletin, No. 8, 1912.

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• It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Mind, World, Problem

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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