Happens Quote by Alan Borovoy

“The problem is that the choice we make in the market don't fully reflect our values as citizens. We might make different choices if…

— Robert B. Reich

You can't allow other people to put a price on what you do, otherwise you don't consider what you do to have any value…

— Robert Smith

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

We always think of our own profit, but not in connection to others.

— Marina Abramovic

One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about…

— Michael Sandel

Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set…

— Gary Becker

When we are conscious of the least comparative merit in ourselves, we should take as much care to conceal the value we set upon…

— Colley Cibber

“Fundamentally, in a system in which the knowledge of the relevant facts is dispersed among many people, prices can act to coordinate the separate…

— Friedrich Hayek

We are bad at valuing other people, and we are worse the more different they are than us.

— Vivienne Ming

People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When they turn out to…

— Eugene Fama

There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very low ceiling…

— George Saunders

Here in the United States, we're consumed by our love of money and status. We think bigger is better, and if we can just…

— Jen Lilley