I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
The growth of a nation's productive potential is the central factor in determining its growth in real wages and living standards… high… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
“What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
An American economist of two generations ago, H. J. Davenport, who was the best friend Thorstein Veblen ever had (Veblen actually lived… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Marshall's crime is to pretend to handle imperfect competition with tools only applicable to perfect competition. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Economists are said to disagree too much but in ways that are too much alike: If eight sleep in the same bed,… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society.… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
That's what I would like to do until the end of time, to go on scribbling my articles on the third floor of the… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
To prove that Wall Street is an early omen of movements still to come in GNP, commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be eagerly followed.… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
In every mutual fund prospectus, in every sales promotional folder, and in every mutual fund advertisement (albeit in print almost too small to read),… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
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