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• For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.

  James Forrestal

  Restoration, World, Way

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• Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Wish, Doe, Economics

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• In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Faith, Desire, Economics

  The New York Times Magazine, June 07, 1970.

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• Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Art, Spring, Roots

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• Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Beautiful, Art, Science

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

  Robert Teeter

  Country, Moving, Voting

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• The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Two, Growth, Standards

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• The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

  Jacques Delors

  Europe, Firsts, Roles

  "Europe's Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age". Book by Steven Hill, 2010.

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• For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Military, Years, Europe

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• Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Done, Given, Fallen

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• A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Equality, Government, Liberty

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty" by Friedrich August von Hayek, Vol. 2 : The Mirage of Social Justice, (Ch. 9), 1976.

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• Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

  Herbert Hoover

  Depression, Business, Cells

  Herbert Hoover, Arnold S. Rice, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1971). “Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

  Ronald Reagan

  Motivational, Business, Entrepreneur

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Economic Models, Rotten

  "Understanding Power". Book by Noam Chomsky, 2002.

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• Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

  Newt Gingrich

  Past, Figures, Crisis

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• It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

  Jose Saramago

  Government, Political, Determine

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• We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

  George Pataki

  Dream, Home, People

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• China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

  Bernard Arnault

  Numbers, Population, Buying

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• Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

  John F. Kennedy

  Business, People, Growth

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.178, Best Books on

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• After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

  Vernon L. Smith

  Engineering, Kansas, Graduates

  Vernon L. Smith (2008). “Discovery - A Memoir”, p.126, AuthorHouse

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Business, Saving

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• I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

  Nestor Kirchner

  Country, Want, Return

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• Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

  Charles Edison

  Personality, Economics, Inseparable

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• The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

  Samuel Gompers

  Reality, Organization, Movement

  "Not Even Compulsory Benevolence Will Do". The American Federationist, Volume 24, 1917.

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• There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Liberty, Conservative, Iron Lady

  "Labour's wretched silence on child poverty" by Kevin McKenna, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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