Economics Quotes - Page 39

• The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Achievement, Peaceful

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, let’s embrace an economic patriotism that says we rise or fall together, as one nation, and as one people.

  Barack Obama

  Fall, Top Down, Play

  "Ex-Senators Paid To Help Multibillion-Dollar Company Evade Corporate Income Taxes" By Shadee Ashtari, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Economics teaches humility because it teaches us more about what we can't do than what we can do

  Peter Boettke

  Humility, Teach, Can Do

  48 Copy quote

• Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the
  political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies.

  Henry Calvert Simons

  Leader, Political, Students

  5 Copy quote

• General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in many parts of the world and is clearly destined to continue developing well into the twenty-first century. Translation studies brings together work in a wide variety of fields, including linguistics, literary study, history, anthropology, psychology, and economics. This series of books will reflect the breadth of work in translation studies and will enable readers to share in the exciting new developments that are taking place at the present time.

  Lawrence Venuti

  Book, Editors, Discipline

  8 Copy quote

• We do not need to understand economics in order to experience the benefits of freedom of exchange and production. But we may very well need to understand economics in order to sustain and maintain the institutional framework that enables us to realize the benefits that flow from freedom of exchange and production.

  Peter Boettke

  Order, Needs, Benefits

  7 Copy quote

• This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects, indeed a defective machinery is at the root of contemporary economics and materialistic civilization, which does not allow the human family to break free from such radically unjust situations.

  Pope John Paul II

  Roots, Civilization, Economic Inequality

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic groups, immigration patterns, just to name a few. He is persuasive and provocative and always scintillating. I've read all his books and never been even faintly disappointed. Black Rednecks & White Liberals is no exception.

  Fred Barnes

  Book, Redneck, Race

  4 Copy quote

• With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Powerful, Disappointment, Compassion

  4 Copy quote

• The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association for Mental Health (NAMH), formed in 1944, and initially run by the mentally unstable Montagu Norman, previously of the Bank of England. The group originally met at Norman's London home, where he and Nazi Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht had met in the 1930s to arrange financing for Hitler.

  Jim Keith

  Running, Home, Eugenics

  Jim Keith (2003). “Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness”, p.16, Adventures Unlimited Press

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's great to be with you gun-toting, 10ther, pro-life, Austrian-economics, home-schooling, redoubt-living, Constitutionalist patriots this evening. I think that covers the SPLC's list.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Home, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the solution is laissez-faire capitalism, i.e., the abolition of any and all forms of intervention in production and trade, the separation of State and Economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of Church and State.

  Ayn Rand

  Government, Evil, Church

  22 Copy quote

• The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

  Fay Vincent

  Baseball, Money, Clubs

  4 Copy quote

• We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

  Clara Zetkin

  Spiritual, Women, Rights

  17 Copy quote

• We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.

  Ron Kind

  Success, Zero, Believe

  53 Copy quote

• The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics and politics. But the greatest insult is to aesthetics. The trouble is that aesthetics has no way of answering back.

  Simon Jenkins

  Sacrifice, Government, Wind

  4 Copy quote

• Regardless of past aspirations, this is the right time to be focusing on services for two specific reasons The increasing ubiquity of broadband has made it viable, and the proven economics of the advertising model has made it profitable.

  Ray Ozzie

  Past, Ubiquity, Two

  4 Copy quote

• Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

  Merton Miller

  Umpires, Arbitrage, Finance

  4 Copy quote

• You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.

  Tadao Ando

  America, Leader, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.

  Tony Kushner

  Gay, Play, People

  Interview with Andrea Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.

  David Brock

  One Day, Wake Up, Sides

  4 Copy quote

• I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

  Herb Ritts

  Good Business, Business Sense, Enjoyed

  5 Copy quote

• Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world.  The appalling disparities of health and wealth and opportunity that condemned millions of people to the lives of despair.  I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas and economics, and politics.  I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.  But humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Opportunity, Ideas

  7 Copy quote

• Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics.

  David Milne

  Thinking, Names, Fundamentals

  68 Copy quote

• I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics.

  Milton Friedman

  Believe, Natural, Resources

  4 Copy quote