Done Quote by Joel Bakan Download Open image “Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.” — Joel Bakan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Done Economics Impossible Made
Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks and charlatans… — Henry Calvert Simons Copy Share Image
Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
“The intellectual case for planning was never very strong. Keynes, as we have seen, regarded economic planning much as he did pure market theory:… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“None of this excuses anyone from mastering the basic ideas and terminology of economics. The intelligent layman must expect also to encounter good economists… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“The Keynesian world is a world in which there are two distinct classes of actors: the skilled investor, ‘who, unperturbed by the prevailing pastime,… — Ludwig Lachmann Copy Share Image
Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be wrong, but… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Chambers et al. conclude that Keynes had no skill as a market timer. By then, however, the man who had started out as a… — Allen C. Benello Copy Share Image
Keynes was scarcely a 'revolutionary' in any real sense. He possessed the tactical wit to dress up ancient statist and inflationist fallacies with modern,… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
No Keynesian has ever proposed a measure designed to make the individual more productive; for that would require institutional means for enabling him to… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit. — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others. — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
“The problem with capitalism is that "we have a global theology without morality, without a Bible." And that's dangerous, he warns - "we're not… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
The notion that business and government are and should be partners is ubiquitous, unremarkable, and repeated like a mantra by leaders in both domains.… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments. — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
These are the elements of an emerging order that may prove to be as dangerous as any fundamentalism that history has produced. For in… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
Governments can can send inspectors to companies. Governments can put legal requirements in place to disclose information that consumers and workers and other interested… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
The whole difficulty I think that that we're facing now is the question of who is going to ensure that corporations are accountable. The… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first full-blown legitimacy… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Failures happen. You can't cry over them. You just take it in your stride because you know that you have done your best... Sometimes,… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I always watch my matches back 100 times afterwards because that's how I improve. This is something I've always done, even in NXT. — Mandy Rose Copy Share Image