Political Economy Quotes

32 Political Economy quotes by 27 unique authors

• There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming… — Ibrahim Babangida
• The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words,… — James Buchan
• Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and… — Vilfredo Pareto
• He who attempts to draw any conclusion whatever as to the nation's wealth or poverty from the mere fact of a favorable or unfavorable Balance… — Ernst Engel
• 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
• 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
• Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time… — Karl Marx
• There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much… — Alexander Hamilton
• Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic… — C. Wright Mills
• Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a… — Friedrich Engels
• Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation. — Jean-Baptiste Say
• Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is it not then… — Gustave de Molinari
• I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes. — Robert Peel
• Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a new, crucial question:… — Lauren F. Winner
• From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and… — Leland Stanford
• Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth;… — Leland Stanford
• We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth.… — Nassau William Senior
• The primary social goal of both systems of political economy is for middle-aged men to attract good-looking younger women. Democratic capitalists believe that good-looking younger… — Gary North
• Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the… — Karl Marx
• It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. — Stephen Leacock
• The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists… — James Buchan
• A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption. — Thomas Jefferson
• The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at… — Ezra Heywood

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27 authors contributed a total of 32 Political Economy Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Political Economy Quotes by Nassau William Senior
• 2 Political Economy Quotes by Leland Stanford
• 2 Political Economy Quotes by Karl Marx
• 2 Political Economy Quotes by James Buchan
• 1 Political Economy Quote by William Stanley Jevons
• 1 Political Economy Quote by W. C. Sellar
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Vladimir Lenin
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Vilfredo Pareto
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Thomas Jefferson
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Thomas Carlyle
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Stephen Leacock
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Robert Peel
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Lauren F. Winner
• 1 Political Economy Quote by John Stuart Mill
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Jean-Baptiste Say
• 1 Political Economy Quote by James Stephens
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Ibrahim Babangida
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Henry George
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Gustave de Molinari
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Gary North
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Friedrich Engels
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Ezra Heywood
• 1 Political Economy Quote by Ernst Engel