Branches Quote by Thomas Malthus

The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge…

— Thomas Malthus

In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Quite apart from our desire to avoid destroying the planet or economic meltdown, I offer another reason to position cooperation at the heart of…

— Oliver James

Nearly half the earth's surface is unclaimed by any country, so seasteads would be startup countries on the blue frontier. Patri Friedman is a…

— Joe Quirk

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of…

— Leland Stanford

“Our political economy and our high-energy industry run on large, general principles, on ideas — not by day-to-day guess work, expedients and improvisations. Ideas…

— William F. Buckley

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

— Stephen Leacock

There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Without being aware that I was following in my father’s footsteps, I read, before I went to Cambridge, Mill’s Logic and Political Economy, and…

— Bertrand Russell

We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of…

— Nassau William Senior

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