I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.
I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.
I think green buildings are extremely important but it's only part of the equation. A lot of people think that if I put a green building everything is going to be fine, but actually it's not just the green buildings we need, but green businesses, green governments, green economics. We have to extend the greening of buildings to our business and our lifestyles - that is the most important thing to do next.
Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.
Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.
The lesson from behavioral economics is that people only save if it's automatic.
Never trust an economist with your job. Learn about economics yourself. And make up your own mind about what might protect your job - and what might destroy it.
I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour
Only a true faith that applies God’s Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly.
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
In economics, the majority is always wrong.
In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the idea that wages are a market price-determined by supply and demand, the same as the price of apples or coal. And it is for that reason, rather than the practical details, that the broader political movement of which the demand for a living wage is the leading edge is ultimately doomed to failure: For the amorality of the market economy is part of its essence, and cannot be legislated away.
The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).
We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.
We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.
I'il n'est pas en notre pouvoir de changer la nature des choses. Il faut les йtudier telles qu'elles sont.
Men will not always die quietly.
Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that
Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
