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Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology. — Seth Klarman
To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than… — Ralph Nader
I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the… — William O. Douglas
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity. — George Bernard Shaw
When men are employed they are best contented. — Benjamin Franklin
Investment is a flighty bird which needs to be controlled. — Sir John Richard Hicks
Nothing so weakens a government as inflation. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants? — Robert Solow
We might as well reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of… — Alfred Marshall
Lack of money is the root of of all evil. — George Bernard Shaw
The truth is never pure and rarely simple. — Oscar Wilde
Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it. — John Stuart Mill
There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy. — Mahatma Gandhi
Inflation is like toothpaste. Once it's out, you can hardly get it back in again. — Unknown Author
The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life. — Sir John Richard Hicks
If it's free put me down for two please — Rolf Harris
It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities,… — David Ricardo
Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained… — Paul Samuelson
If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas — David Landes
It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient… — Matt Ridley
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology,… — Steven Pinker
The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues — Richard Dawkins
We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without… — Paul Krugman
The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers… — Jack Vance
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the… — Milton Friedman

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