Politics Quote by James T. Patterson

So many of the great thought leaders that have shaped economics - Gary Becker, Milton Friedman - what an unbelievable success story they've had…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of the 20th…

— Adam Davidson

Friedmans influence reaches far beyond the academic community and the world of economics. Rather than lock himself in an ivory tower, he has joined…

— William E. Simon

Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

— George Stigler

“The nearest approach to a libertarian government was the government of the United States at the time of its inception.”

— John Hospers

“Two trends are primarily responsible for today’s hyperconcentration of wealth inAmerica— the collective decisions over time by America’s corporate power elite to take a…

— Hedrick Smith

“George Mason’s economics department, meanwhile, became a hotbed of controversial theories that began to transform Americans’ tax bills, serving as an incubator for the…

— Jane Mayer

“What the Koch network needed to do, he said, was to persuade moderate, undecided voters that the “intent” of economic libertarians was virtuous.”

— Jane Mayer

“Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.”

— John Charles Chasteen

“But the Great Society did not do nearly as much to improve the economic standing of people as did the extraordinary growth of the…

— James T. Patterson

“Liberal critics, like the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize–winning economist, worried that the country was in danger of being transformed…

— Jane Mayer