So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.
What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.
We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once. . . space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge.
I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.
Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.
Nothing so weakens a government as inflation.
Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.
A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.
The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.
Inflation is like toothpaste. Once it's out, you can hardly get it back in again.
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush
I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.
In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.
But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.
Economics is really politics in disguise.
Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.