Blithe Quote by Rudolf Hilferding

No one is entertained by economics.

— Michael Moore

There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

— Alfred P. Sloan

Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.

— Robert Heilbroner

Under perfect competition, in the long run no company makes an economic profit.

— Peter Thiel

No economy ever stands still.

— Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder…

— Karl Marx

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

Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

— Charles P. Kindleberger

What we are left with is an overmanipulated economy that can't function normally.

— Kenichi Ohmae

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of…

— Karl Marx

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

— Herbert Read

Prosperity has no power over adversity.

— Publilius Syrus