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1329 Economics quotes by 729 unique authors
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Man does not live by GNP alone.
— Paul Samuelson
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Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
— E F Schumacher
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One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist.
— Harold MacMillan
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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce…
— Brooks Stevens
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Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.
— George Soros
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The attempt to isolate economics from other disciplines-notably politics, history, philosophy, finance, constitutional theory and sociology-has fatally disabled its power to explain what is happening…
— Will Hutton
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The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts.
— Walter F. Mondale
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The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.
— W. C. Sellar
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The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.
— George Meany
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The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived…
— Joan Robinson
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You cannot go to sleep with one form of economic system and wake up the next morning with another.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.
— Stewart Udall
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Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
— Stewart Udall
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Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery has…
— Gary Snyder
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Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.
— James Bovard
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I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I…
— Grover Cleveland
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As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.
— Robert Kuttner
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the…
— Thomas Piketty
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Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to…
— John Maynard Keynes
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We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
— Wassily Leontief
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