Books Quote by Eduardo Galeano

“As we suggested near the beginning of this book, if morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.”

— Steven D. Levitt

Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It was the oddest of political prejudices that wealth didn’t come from work, but rather from something else, a something never really described, but…

— Tom Clancy

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“economics was largely a form of intellectual prostitution where you got rewarded for saying what the powers that be wanted to hear.”

— Max Tegmark

“Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and action.”

— Christopher Bram

“We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“Gore Vidal, the American writer, once famously described the American economic system as ‘free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich’.”

— Ha-Joon Chang

“if you want to be a great writer, you have to be a greed reader.”

— Imelda Akmal Architectural Writer

“The virtue of capitalism is that society can take advantage of people’s greed rather than their benevolence, but there is no need to, in…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes

“The essence of modern capitalism is not slavery of the antique pattern but the possession of the expensive tools of production by a small…

— Francis Stuart Campbell