Political Economy Quotes
32 Political Economy quotes by 27 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy
— Thomas Carlyle
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
— Stephen Leacock
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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
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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
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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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