Economic Quote by Murray Rothbard

“True law is not imposed; it arises from unintentional developments. (...)Law emerges (...) as something not merely legislated but given. The later positivism knows…

— Carl Schmitt

POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest…

— Ambrose Bierce

Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and…

— Jurgen Habermas

The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the science and…

— Theodor Adorno

The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without any discussion…

— Tony Benn

The theory of objectivism claims that there are certain things that most people in society can agree upon. A model is pretty. A lawyer…

— Portia de Rossi

You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

— Mark Twain

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").

— Michel Chossudovsky

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts (pure theory) and facts without theory

— Michel Chossudovsky

The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

— George Soros

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The argument for collectivism is simple; free market is not.

— Milton Friedman