I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Classic economic theories recognize public goods aspects of one kind or another - the need for economic intervention in, obviously, the supply… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“This book was under arrest, along with its author. This event occurred on March 27, 1986. During that time, the totalitarian system… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
The Western world, in spite of its advantages of mechanization and industrial efficiency is today in a worse mess than ever before… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing. — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true… — Dwight D. Eisenhower 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 modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality. — Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh Copy Share Image
There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
People tend to be clueless about prices. Contrary to economic theory, we don't really decide between A and B by consulting our… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game.… — Sir John Richard Hicks Copy Share Image
Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold.… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
