Economics Quote by Thomas Carlyle Download Open image “Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy” — Thomas Carlyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Economy Nicknames Political Political economy Science
persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining “Dismal Science” as… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help thinking that… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“Unlike sociology, a pariah science that is always under suspicion for its supposed political leanings, and from which the powerful expect nothing but a… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Critics of 'economic sciences' sometimes refer to the development of a 'pseudoscience' of economics, arguing that it uses the trappings of science, like dense… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all ages necessarily… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle 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
