Economics Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith Download Open image “Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.” — John Kenneth Galbraith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Employment
Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I believe the power of Economics is to help provide a unique lens for looking at the world. — Russ Roberts Copy Share Image
Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies. — Henry Calvert Simons Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences for understanding… — Mark Blaug Copy Share Image
Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life. — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
Creating efficiencies in private markets is a huge win for the economy. — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people? — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens. — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.” — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Consumer wants can have bizarre, frivolous, or even immoral origins, and an admirable case can still be made for a society that seeks to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If we were not in Vietnam, all that part of the world would be enjoying the obscurity it so richly deserves. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi 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
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
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