Economic Theory Quotes

36 Economic Theory quotes by 31 unique authors

Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The new 'scientific' or… — Robert Fogel
Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy compared with the… — John Maynard Keynes
The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist. Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding… — John Bates Clark
Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on… — George Monbiot
In economic theory the conclusions are sometimes less interesting than the route by which they are reached. — Unknown Author
Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth. — Mark Lynas
Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action… — Ludwig von Mises
Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold. But if the… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but in the course… — John Maynard Keynes
We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic… — Dan Ariely
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and… — Herman E. Daly
In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or… — Martin Feldstein
Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models. — Robert Higgs
Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield… — George Stigler
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant… — Douglass North
Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in… — Ludwig von Mises
We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an… — B. W. Powe
As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist — Dalai Lama
If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved… — Nigel Lawson
Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream. — George W. Bush
There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no… — Sir John Richard Hicks
My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics… — James Meade
My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance… — James Meade
Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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