Change Quote by Keith Thomas

“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

Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end…

— Thomas Piketty

“Writing in the 1950s, Daniel Bell, the great American sociologist, said, ‘economic growth has become the secular religion of advancing industrial societies’.”

— Edward Luce

Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object…

— George Soros

“Are changes in the economy caused by changes in the mental state of society?”

— Dimitri Maex

“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.”

— Tim Jackson

The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by…

— John Maynard Keynes

“History is, after all, something that happened to people. No 'force' whether economic or political can act except as it acts through the minds…

— Priscilla Smith Robertson

“As long as the incomes of the various classes of contemporary society remain beyond the reach of scientific inquiry, there can be no hope…

— Thomas Piketty

Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism

— Frank Knight

“The arguments underlying Marx’s historical prophecy are invalid. His ingenious attempt to draw prophetic conclusions from observations of contemporary economic tendencies failed. The reason…

— Karl R. Popper

“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