I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“The mindset of antiquity lacked economic science and sociological theory. The ancients did rather well with political narrative, although, except for Thucydides,… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“Yet economics purports to be strangely exempt from this fact of life. From Adam Smith's day to our own, the chief concern… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“As Adam Smith put it centuries ago: “the emotion which we feel for the misery of others… is by no means confined… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“The fact that bonuses were paid monthly also kept everyone focused on the present, while innovation is about making sacrifices today in… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Hoover and Mellon did more than history gives them credit for (i.e., they did more than absolutely nothing) and it’s never been… — Bruce Cannon Gibney Copy Share Image
Everyone from Adam Smith, John Stewart Mill, they were all reforms. What they wanted to reform was getting rid of this parasitic… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
In my book, 'The Big Three in Economics,' I found that the press has frequently and prematurely written the obituary of Adam… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
“No, the art of government was to curb and guide men’s greedy appetites into useful courses, so that, as the Scottish economist… — Hugh Brogan Copy Share Image
Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of institutions in the economic world which depart from the simple price/market model which I worked on in… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
From the equilibrium and spontaneous order of Adam Smith and his heirs, from invisible-handed markets and perfect competition, supply and demand, and… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Freud and the unconscious, Darwin and natural selection, Marx and class struggle, Einstein and relativity, Adam Smith and division of labor—they were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During the two centuries since the publication of 'The Wealth of Nations,' the main activity of economists, it seems to me, has… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
“It’s important to understand that while libertarian philosophy may have been regarded as a fringe movement in American politics, epitomized by Ron… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
The gains from specialization go all the way back to Adam Smith. He talked about the advantage of a bigger market being… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, this idea that the origin of prosperity is hard work and frugality was exhaustively formulated by Adam Smith in… — Axel Kaiser Copy Share Image
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
