Economics Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“A nation is not made welthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.”

— Adam Smith

“People continued to speak mutually incomprehensible languages, obey different rulers and worship distinct gods, but all believed in gold and silver and in gold…

— Yuval Noah Harari

By common consent of the nations, gold and silver are the only true measure of value. They are the necessary regulators of trade. I…

— Hugh McCulloch

“For a century or more, the “civilized” world regarded as a manifestation of its wealth metal dug from deep in the ground, refined at…

— Felix Martin

It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others -…

— Anonymous

“But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't…

— David Graeber

“The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the…

— Walter Isaacson

The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into…

— Karl Marx

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

— Alfred Marshall

“The only thing that is or should be equal in the creation of wealth is the opportunity to participate. Everything else is naturally and…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and…

— Jack Weatherford