Modern Economic Quotes
- Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world. — E F Schumacher
- Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it? — Paul J. Zak
- 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
- For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the… — Max Weber