Economics Quote by Richard Davenport-Hines Download Open image ““The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.”” — Richard Davenport-Hines ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Economists Happiness Keynes Science
“It is actually a rather sorry tale. In the late nineteenth century most English economists thought that economics was about happiness. They thought of… — Richard Layard Copy Share Image
Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
“Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime efforts. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Then, madam, they do nothing.” Albert Einstein once said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” Economics… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Money might not be able to buy happiness, but it made misery more bearable.” — Ava Gray Copy Share Image
“Keynes concluded that citizens both rich and poor would have to be led gradually out of capitalism, a base and repugnant system of morals.… — David Roth Singerman Copy Share Image
“Money may not buy happiness, but it buys a hell of a lot of distraction from unhappiness” — Kim Izzo Copy Share Image
“The idea of happiness is great but most people exaggerate the sense and accomplishments of happiness.” — Ankit Samrat Copy Share Image
“It was a symbiotic division of labor that would have made a classical economist flush with pride.” — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“Instead of using their vastly increased material and technical resources to build a wonder-city, they built slums; and they thought it right and advisable… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“Ritzonia" was the epithet coined by Bernard Bernson, who sold Italian pictures to American millionaires, to describe the unreal, mortifying sameness of their luxury.… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“He was sceptical about the value of almost all work, save for the pleasure it gives the worker,' reported Virginia Woolf. 'He works only… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness. — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who discriminate, or… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“The first chap we said was loafing, until he died. That's nearly always the verdict on a sailing ship, anyway. A man is invariably… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever,… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning.” — Richard Davenport-Hines 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
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi 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
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
