Acquire Quote by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability,…

— James Buchan

We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.

— Satish Kumar

The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to…

— Adam Smith

Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then is it…

— John Dos Passos

The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost…

— Michael Lewis

“ONE OF THE main differences between standard and behavioral economics involves this concept of “free lunches.” According to the assumptions of standard economics, all…

— Dan Ariely

For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

— Ernest Mandel

Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism about even…

— Mariana Mazzucato

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence,…

— Herman E. Daly

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