Economics Quote by Murray Rothbard

“Economics is the tool we hide behind today in order to justify an abhorrent track record of abuses of human rights and degradation of…

— Steve Carlsson

We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

— Tony Juniper

Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits…

— Thomas Sowell

“science of economics should focus on the best use of scarce means to satisfy social ends.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is important is…

— Thomas Woods

Premise Eight: The needs of the natural world are more important than the needs of the economic system.

— Derrick Jensen

“A fundamental insight of modern economics is that the key to the creation of wealth is a division of labor, in which specialists learn…

— Steven Pinker

The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict…

— Ludwig von Mises

Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

— Andrew Simms

“Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and countries, rules…

— Karl Marx

“Under this system, nonliving things, such as industries and products, are often valued more than living organisms, such as ecosystems and basic human health.…

— Natalia Rose

“What confirms them in this view is the peculiar circumstance that the use-value of a thing is realized without exchange, i.e., in the direct…

— Juliet Schor