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Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other. — Harry S. Truman
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by. — H.G. Wells
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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
The rules of workplace democracy are founded in solidarity and mutual trust. They are at the core of a historic process which promises to introduce… — Unknown Author
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
Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy — Thomas Carlyle
Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political… — John Stuart Mill
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little! — Horace
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Be thrifty, but not covetous. — George Herbert
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
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
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
We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they… — Julia Gillard
The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed… — Tony Blair
Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children — Unknown Author
We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets. — Eugene V. Debs
The economic owning class is always the political ruling class. — Eugene V. Debs
Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power.… — Milton Friedman
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or… — John Kenneth Galbraith
From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a… — Eduardo Galeano
If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens, the U.S. model… — Edward S. Herman
Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria. — Robert M. Hutchins

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