Consumer Quote by Frederic Bastiat

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

— Seth Godin

Everyone has an interest in the economy: in how it functions, how well it functions, and in whose interests it functions.

— Jim Stanford

“The problem is that the choice we make in the market don't fully reflect our values as citizens. We might make different choices if…

— Robert B. Reich

[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is directed.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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

With every decisions we make, the last question we ask is what does the consumer think of this.

— Niall FitzGerald

“Markets express and promote certain attitudes to the goods being exchanged.”

— Michael J. Sandel

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“Corporate Responsibility; Environmental Preservation; Consumer Protection; Sex & Race Discrimination (they must mean Sex and Race Liberation ).”

— John Cage

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“In the market economy the consumers are supreme. Consumers determine, by their buying or abstention from buying, what should be produced, by whom and…

— Ludwig Von Mises

To study consumer behavior is to explore human nature at its most fundamental level using the modern world as its backdrop.

— Gad Saad