The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.
I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.
We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.
When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.
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 admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves. . . In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday they transform the passage of time and analyze the economics and politics of the instruments of living.
A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local rules
It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.
We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.
The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?
Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (l926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.
Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).
Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which are necessary in order to discuss them. The Mole effect is to substitute slogans and superficial opinion for considered individual thought. And the opinion is that of the lowest common denominator of the group.
. . . a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.
I prefer to call the most obnoxious feminists what they really are: feminazis. Tom Hazlett, a good friend who is an esteemed and highly regarded professor of economics at the University of California at Davis, coined the term to describe any female who is intolerant of any point of view that challenges militant feminism.
There are millions and millions of Sufis who have existed in Islamic history and have the deepest impact on every aspect of Islamic culture and civilization to philosophy to art to science to social structure to economics who have not met the destiny of al-Hallaj.
That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.
Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").
The analyses. . . often become too competent to be comprehensible.
Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.