Economics Quote by Georg Simmel

The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world…

— Georg Simmel

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one…

— Georg Simmel

The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs.…

— Stuart L. Hart

Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.

— Martin Seligman

“With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent.”

— John Maynard Keynes

“In the days when money was backed by its face value in silver or gold, there were limits to how much wealth could flow…

— Alan Weisman

Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the developed world.…

— Stuart L. Hart

GDP simply measures the circulation of money in the economy, not whether or not the outcome of using that money is positive or negative.

— Caroline Lucas

For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks…

— Wendell Berry

“Money is to an economy as nutrition is to the human body. When central bankers ignore that relationship by providing more capital that functionally…

— Said Elias Dawlabani

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get…

— Mark Twain

New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with…

— John Gunther