Chapters Quote by David Cameron

Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.

— John Clapham

Economics are part of our life. We try to treat them separately, like over there is the economy and here is history. Econ affects…

— Amity Shlaes

Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object…

— George Soros

This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands…

— John Podesta

“The economic revolution of 1870 to 1970 was unique in human history, unrepeatable because so many of its achievements could happen only once.”

— Robert J. Gordon

The societies which have achieved the most spectacular broad-based economic progress in the shortest period of time are not the most tightly controlled, not…

— Ronald Reagan

Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?

— Newt Gingrich

Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we…

— Antony Beevor

History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions…

— Rachel Nichols

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

We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.

— Shia LaBeouf

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

— John Kenneth Galbraith