The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time. — Adam Davidson Advances Copy Share Image
In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless. — Adam Davidson Countries Copy Share Image
Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex. — Adam Davidson Answers Copy Share Image
Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money. — Adam Davidson Art Copy Share Image
When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree. — Adam Davidson Always Copy Share Image
If your business is really easy to do, don't gloat. You might be out of a job soon. — Adam Davidson Business Copy Share Image
Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer. — Adam Davidson Become Copy Share Image
Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it. — Adam Davidson Constitution Copy Share Image
The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means… — Adam Davidson Activity Copy Share Image
Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have… — Adam Davidson Across Copy Share Image
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that… — Adam Davidson Bad Copy Share Image
If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard… — Adam Davidson Believe Copy Share Image
If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11… — Adam Davidson Accounting Copy Share Image
A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumption deferred, and it's pretty clear that… — Adam Davidson Balance Copy Share Image
A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what… — Adam Davidson Before Copy Share Image
The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is… — Adam Davidson About Copy Share Image
There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views… — Adam Davidson Among Copy Share Image
Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander… — Adam Davidson About Copy Share Image
The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which… — Adam Davidson Ambitious Copy Share Image
What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively… — Adam Davidson About Copy Share Image
'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history… — Adam Davidson Actually Copy Share Image
The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it… — Adam Davidson About Copy Share Image
I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of… — Adam Davidson 20th century Copy Share Image
If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter… — Adam Davidson Accounts Copy Share Image
The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us. — Adam Davidson Affects Copy Share Image
The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information. — Adam Davidson Among Copy Share Image
We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary. — Adam Davidson Fight Copy Share Image
Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase:… — Adam Davidson About Copy Share Image
Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from… — Adam Davidson About Copy Share Image
We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe… — Adam Davidson About Copy Share Image
One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and… — Adam Davidson Balance Copy Share Image
Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began… — Adam Davidson 20th century Copy Share Image
Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it… — Adam Davidson Concentrated Copy Share Image
Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts… — Adam Davidson About Copy Share Image
When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple… — Adam Davidson Baby Copy Share Image
Unlike physics, economists don't settle things. There seems to be plenty of room for different conclusions that are still accepted in the… — Adam Davidson Academy Copy Share Image
The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just… — Adam Davidson Always Copy Share Image
Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would… — Adam Davidson Affect Copy Share Image
What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be… — Adam Davidson Come Copy Share Image
The economy works best when better ideas win out over worse ideas, harder work wins out over less work, when it's a… — Adam Davidson Best Copy Share Image
