I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things. — John Clapham Copy Share Image
The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few. — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money.… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“Most economic histories of the "world" not only omit most extra-European production and exchange (even most of that outside West Europe or… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth… — Hugh Hendry Copy Share Image
We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history. — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
