Economics Quote by Stephen Leacock Download Open image “It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.” — Stephen Leacock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Economy Political Political economy Politics
Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life. — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics. — Eugene Hutz Copy Share Image
Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet which are… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Everybody has to remember that economics is very tied to politics. — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and 'Pas trop… — George Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system. — David Hare Copy Share Image
My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon,… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“Suppose a would-be writer can't begin? I really believe there are many excellent writers who have never written because they never could begin. This… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. — Stephen Leacock 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