Books Quote by Steven D. Levitt

“If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.”

— Steven D. Levitt

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work.

— Anonymous

“Apart from the economic value, money does have high moral value.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave?”

— Dan Ariely

“Normative Economics is like religion without the aesthetics.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“This, of course, is the big dance of capitalism: how to keep morality from gumming up the gears of profit, how to convince people…

— Steve Almond

“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.”

— Peter Boettke

Economics is not a morality play.

— Paul Krugman

There is a moral underpinning to economics. And the kinds of questions that it asks and the kinds of solutions it proposes do seem…

— John Lanchester

“The entire morality of the world could be summarized in the words, do as others do.”

— Multatuli

Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations.

— Thomas Jefferson