Economics Quote by Charles Wheelan Download Open image “Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.” — Charles Wheelan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Gravity Rude Surprise
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better. — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens. — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Several studies of thousands of British civil servants (the Whitehall studies) have found that workers who have little control over their jobs—meaning they have… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
“We’ve built a society that values civil liberties even at the expense of social order.” — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
“Is the journey still worthwhile if the mountain turns out to be enshrouded in fog at the top?” — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
“Here is one of the most important things to remember when doing research that involves regression analysis: Try not to kill anyone. You can… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
“During the twentieth century, communist governments killed some 100 million of their own people in peacetime, either by repression or by famine.” — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
“Most economists would concede that, in theory, government has the tools to smooth the business cycle. The problem is that fiscal policy is not… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
“In a basic agricultural society, it's easy enough to swap five chickens for a new dress or to pay a schoolteacher with a goat… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
Being great involves luck, and unique circumstances, and a lot of other forces beyond your control. You can’t just make it happen by working… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
“But it’s not perfect. The GPA does not reflect the difficulty of the courses that different students may have taken.” — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
“Recognize that your own motivation, ambition, and talents will determine your success more than the college name on your diploma.”8” — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
“When I applied to graduate school many years ago, I wrote an essay expressing my puzzlement at how a country that could put a man on the moon could still have people sleeping on the streets. Part of that problem is political will; we could take a lot of people off the streets tomorrow if we made it a national… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share
“(Remember, human capital embodies not only classroom training but also perseverance, honesty, creativity—virtues that lend themselves to finding work.) Some” — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned from the '30s, it is a lesson we learned post-World War II, and it plays to our strengths. — Charles Boustany Copy Share
“The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the standard of living and level of awareness of life’s pleasures and luxuries available to the educated and new middle classes, in all countries liberated from the “intelligent design” of totalitarian or semi-totalitarian governments that purported to… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share
“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality of the categories and concepts employed by that science, is, in fact, the paradoxical product of a long collective history, endlessly reproduced in individual histories, which can be fully accounted for only by historical analysis: it… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
“a select group of high-performing companies have managed to close the strategy-to-performance gap through better planning and execution. These companies—Barclays, Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical,… — Michael C. Mankins Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own… — Karl Marx Copy Share
