Economics Quote by Jan Morris

economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.

— Joan Robinson

The language of the street is always strong.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most intellectuals outside the field of economics show remarkably little interest in learning even the basic fundamentals of economics. Yet they do not hesitate…

— Thomas Sowell

Even the poorest street is rich with people on it and even the richest street is poor without people on it!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city…

— Willa Cather

“Then let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish verb…

— William H. Gass

It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.

— Anne Waldman

The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst,…

— Jack Vance

“Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.”

— Mark Abley

“Dictionaries are well respected, and they’re immune to market fluctuations. Isn’t there anyone with the balls to aim high and think long-term? “Forget”

— Shion Miura

From the start, English has happily absorbed words from every tongue it's encountered.

— Susie Dent

“Economics is really about two stories. One is the story of the old economist and younger economist walking down the street, and the younger…

— Paul Krugman