Economics Quote by P. J. O'Rourke Download Open image “Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.” — P. J. O'Rourke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Mine Obsession Thinking Zero
Once you start thinking about growth of economy, it's hard to think about anything else. — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard of the book 'Freakonomics?' So there's these two economics professors, and they're really interesting guys, and they wrote these books.… — Oliver Luck 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
This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Fortunately, economists open to new ways of thinking are finding novel ways to use supposedly irrelevant factors to make the world a better place. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds. — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better. — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes. — P. J. O'Rourke 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… — 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
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… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
