Abstract Quote by William Vickrey Download Open image “This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.” — William Vickrey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abstract Economics Paper
“The science called ‘economics’ is based on an initial act of abstraction that consists in dissociating a particular category of practices, or a particular… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo. — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Economics is not a true description of one kind of action but an abstract, arbitrary, and therefore erroneous description of all action; and the… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely… — Wassily Leontief Copy Share Image
“Neoclassical economics is precisely the theory one would expect a vastly complex system of international corporations, world markets, and interconnected currencies to create to… — Roger M. Keesing Copy Share Image
We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world. — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, what economics attempts to measure, underneath money, is the totality of all that human beings make and do for each other.” — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level. — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance, adjusted by changes in labor and capital inputs. This… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression. — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues. — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you. — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The word of the Lord never comes to us as an opinion, no attempt is made to support it by argument, it comes as… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move,… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
