Economics Quote by Jim Stanford Download Open image “Economics is a social science, not a physical science.” — Jim Stanford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Physical science Science Social Social science
There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results. — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists. — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced economies, many… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Economic systems come, and economic systems go. No economic system lasts forever. Capitalism is not likely to last forever, either. — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
This relationship is the foundation for the argument, made by some trade unionists and labour advocates, that high wages can actually be "good for… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
The total dividend income declared in 1995 by the bottom 9.7 million Canadian tax-filers (47% of all those submitting tax returns) was $310 million.… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
We know that investment causes growth. But it is also true that growth causes investment. — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
With joint-stock corporations, investors can place bets on the success of many different companies, without having to play a central management role in any… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household. ... In developed capitalist economies, private… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice and irrationality… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned… — Charles Boustany Copy Share Image
“The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share Image
“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
“a select group of high-performing companies have managed to close the strategy-to-performance gap through better planning and execution. These companies—Barclays, Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical,… — Michael C. Mankins Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
