Economics Quote by Tim Harford Download Open image ““The dictator has to keep the economy functioning in order to keep stealing from it.”” — Tim Harford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics
“I’ve never understood in my life why all these dictators, when they stole, why didn’t they just steal a billion and spend the rest… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
“In a socialistic economy, the small businessman has to be a thief to prosper.” — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
“There is nothing wrong with the economy, the only thing changing is who keeps the money.” — J.J. Blackwood Copy Share Image
“Having been born to wealth, stealing doesn’t fret me as much as it does him.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The natural state of our economy is prosperity. Freedom guarantees that. The only force capable of undermining it is government.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“We don't steal from the rich and give to the poor. We steal from the poor because they can't fight back --most of them--… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“Even dictators become dictators because somehow, deep in their hearts, they believe they've been chosen to save the world. Everyone is chosen. There lies… — Eric Gamalinda Copy Share Image
“But the economy's out of control. Money just doesn't need human beings anymore. Most of us only get in the way.” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“We live in a global economy where voracious political and corporate greed has turned your life into a disposable commodity to be used and… — Martin Yate Copy Share Image
“Indeed, nothing but smuggling kept the poor from starving to death under that Government monopoly, benevolently planned for their good.” — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“the poor don’t have much in the way of money or possessions to steal—so it turns out that the most profitable thing to steal… — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image
“By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“The evolutionary algorithm--of variation and selection, repeated--searches for solutions in a world where the problems keep changing, trying all sorts of variants and doing… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
There's lots and lots of guys out there. The question is trying to find the right one. — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going,… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
In many ways, love seems to be totally divorced from economics. But then you realize - well, the stakes are high. This is something… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
I don't think Brian Cox does 'The Wonders of the Solar System' because he believes the world would be a better place if people… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex system. I hope that my writing about it might… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error. — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
I think the association of economics with forecasting is unfortunate and is down to the fact that one great way to get an investment… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had gone away to fight in the Second… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
“We should aim to make ours a world where people feel free to do things they enjoy, even if others are mildly inconvenienced, but… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Loss aversion is a really disproportionate anxiety about stuff that doesn't matter very much. So for instance, if you lose $5, you feel really… — Tim Harford 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
