Difficult Quote by Charles Ferguson

“Getting to the cutting edge of a field can be understood in these terms: This process builds up rare and valuable skills and therefore…

— Cal Newport

Recreational number theory [...] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.

— Hendrik Lenstra

“Defining what constitutes a conspiracy theory is difficult.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice Junior

Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and less elegant…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

— Ernest Mandel

Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism about even…

— Mariana Mazzucato

The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict…

— Ludwig von Mises

Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better…

— Anonymous

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence,…

— Herman E. Daly

It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed, they have…

— Paul Zane Pilzer

In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation…

— Martin Feldstein

The fact -- not theory -- that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in…

— George Gaylord Simpson