Economics Quote by Merton Miller Download Open image “My main interest, however, was in economics, not law.” — Merton Miller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics However Interest Law Main
I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
I started in the law; and the study of law, when it precedes the study of economics, gives you a set of foundation principles… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense. — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of money. — David Autor Copy Share Image
I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
My interest in economics just basically comes because I think I'm a curious person, and I'm interested in how the world works. — Kane Copy Share Image
I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general… — Gerard Debreu Copy Share Image
I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately - I went to law school. But… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics. — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
... Any pension fund manager who doesn't have the vast majority-and I mean 70% or 80% of his or her portfolio-in passive investments is… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors. — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury. — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago. — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever. — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions,… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
What happened after publication of our paper was that, for the next 40 years, people said, all right, we now know the answer to… — Merton Miller 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 from the '30s, it is a lesson we learned post-World War II, and it plays to our strengths. — Charles Boustany Copy Share
“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 standard of living and level of awareness of life’s pleasures and luxuries available to the educated and new middle classes, in all countries liberated from the “intelligent design” of totalitarian or semi-totalitarian governments that purported to… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share
“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality of the categories and concepts employed by that science, is, in fact, the paradoxical product of a long collective history, endlessly reproduced in individual histories, which can be fully accounted for only by historical analysis: it… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share
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 artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own… — Karl Marx Copy Share
