Best Economics Lines
1329 Economics quotes by 729 unique authors
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Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.
— George Stephenson
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...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.
— George Stigler
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"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."
— Calvin Trillin
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To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He was…
— William Vickrey
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Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
— Milton Friedman
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Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.
— Robert Lucas, Jr.
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Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.
— Paul Samuelson
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When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.
— Thomas J. Sargent
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Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth
— Bruno Frey
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The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism.
— Joan Robinson
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Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.
— Edward Heath
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Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.
— Assar Lindbeck
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Supply creates its own demand.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
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The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing…
— Dennis Holme Robertson
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Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.
— David Ricardo
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary.
— Donald Creighton
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Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.
— Harold Innis
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We have one asset, and that's people.
— Sylvia Ostry
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As capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer must grow worse.
— Karl Marx
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I have never read it. You should not waste your time.
— Kenneth Clarke
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I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.
— Ronald Reagan
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If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.
— Kirk Kerkorian
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In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where…
— Prince Philip
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