Economics Quote by Daron Acemoğlu

Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa…

— Barton Gellman

From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist…

— Elliott Abrams

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

— Jill Lepore

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point…

— John Henrik Clarke

“Our truest and best American antiquity, as the Dominion History of the Union insisted, was the nineteenth century, whose household virtues and modest industries…

— Robert Charles Wilson

The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the…

— Oscar Wilde

I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that…

— Russ Feingold

The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.

— John Maynard Keynes

'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In…

— William T. Vollmann

Magicians from the nineteenth century threw cards distances, but I think I'm the first one who made a thing about using them as weapons.

— Ricky Jay

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is…

— Adolf Loos

“In my opinion,' he said, 'the nineteenth century is passing for everyone except us.”

— Gabriel García Márquez