Books Quote by Paul Craig Roberts

I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One…

— Charlie Trotter

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

— Tim Harford

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

I think I couldn't do what I do [live without money] without studying economics, because you need to understand the system first - how…

— Mark Boyle

That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and…

— David Plotz

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

— Ben Bernanke

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

— John Lanchester

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

— John McCain

I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing…

— Mark Skousen

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson…

— Thomas Sowell

I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize the material…

— Greg Mankiw

It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be…

— Lars Peter Hansen