Quotes about Economics

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. Votes: 5

Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life. Votes: 5

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. Votes: 5

Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later. Votes: 5

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. Votes: 5

Economics is not brain surgery. Votes: 4

Economics is not an exact science. Votes: 4

Economics exists to make astrology look respectable. Votes: 4

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated. Votes: 4

Economics is a social science, not a physical science. Votes: 4

Economics is too important to leave to the economists. Votes: 4

Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended. Votes: 4

Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is. Votes: 4

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis. Votes: 4

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific. Votes: 4

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul. Votes: 4

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness. Votes: 4

Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories. Votes: 4

Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems. Votes: 4

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions. Votes: 4

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. Votes: 4

Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right. Votes: 4

Economics departments are dominated by Marxism, which is taken straight or on the rocks, in the form of Keynesianism. Votes: 4

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right. Votes: 4

According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family. Votes: 4

Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards. Votes: 4

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running. Votes: 4

Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity. Votes: 4

Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill. Votes: 4

Economics as currently presented in textbooks and taught in the classroom does not have much to do with business management, and still less with entrepreneurship. Votes: 4

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much. Votes: 4

Economics is not brain surgery. Votes: 3

Economics is really politics in disguise. Votes: 3

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable. Votes: 3

Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology. Votes: 3

Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive. Votes: 3

Economics and ethics have little in common. Votes: 3

Economics is a form of brain damage, Votes: 3

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. Votes: 3

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. Votes: 3

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. Votes: 3

Economics is the continuation of energy/resources by other means. Votes: 3

Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses. Votes: 3

transformation begins with the individualDr William Edwards DemingThe New Economics - 1993 Votes: 3

Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources. Votes: 3

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes. Votes: 3

Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the Votes: 3

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man Votes: 3

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford. Votes: 3

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure. Votes: 3

[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics. Votes: 3

Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics. Votes: 3

Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind. Votes: 3

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life. Votes: 3

Economics, n.: Economics is the study of the value and meaning of J. K. Galbraith ... Votes: 3

I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant. Votes: 3

Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts. Votes: 3

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy. Votes: 3

Economics brings into view that conflict of choice is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence. Votes: 3

Economics teaches humility because it teaches us more about what we can't do than what we can do Votes: 3

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago. Votes: 3

I believe the power of Economics is to help provide a unique lens for looking at the world. Votes: 3

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable. Votes: 3

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price. Votes: 3

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. Votes: 3

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. Votes: 3

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject. Votes: 3

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time. Votes: 3

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. Votes: 3

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive. Votes: 3

'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards. Votes: 3

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought. Votes: 3

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results. Votes: 3

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. Votes: 3

Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition. Votes: 3

Perfect competition' is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. So-called perfectly competitive markets achieve equilibrium when producer supply meets consumer demand. Votes: 3

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics Votes: 3

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. Votes: 3

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all. Votes: 3

Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that shape human behaviour and judgment. Votes: 3

Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated. Votes: 3

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion. Votes: 3

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. Votes: 3

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either. Votes: 3

We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics. Votes: 3

Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life. Votes: 3

All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality. Votes: 3

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it. Votes: 3

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling. Votes: 3

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder. Votes: 3

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. Votes: 3

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich. Votes: 3

When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - look decrepit within a year or two of their construction... Votes: 3

Economics is not a morality play. Votes: 2

Economics is a very dangerous science. Votes: 2

Economics is on the side of humanity now. Votes: 2

Economics never was a dismal science. I should be a realistic science. Votes: 2

No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages. Votes: 2

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics. Votes: 2

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises. Votes: 2

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. Votes: 2

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful. Votes: 2

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. Votes: 2

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow. Votes: 2

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there Votes: 2

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long. Votes: 2

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment. Votes: 2

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity. Votes: 2

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray. Votes: 2

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them. Votes: 2

In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to noise, but a microscope to investigate the creative process behind every company and its price. Votes: 2

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken. Votes: 2

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. Votes: 2

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups. Votes: 2

I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics. Votes: 2

The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal. Votes: 2

Commercial institutions, proud of their achievements, do not see that healthy living systems - clean air and water, healthy soil, stable climates - are integral to a functioning economy. As our living systems deteriorate, traditional forecasting and business economics become the equivalent of house rules on a sinking cruise ship. Votes: 2

If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve, but you're never allowed to discuss any economics after you leave,' I'd have said, 'Forget it.' What do they want me to do? Become an anthropologist?' Votes: 2

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property. Votes: 2

One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money. Votes: 2

As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department of Economics, I was drawn to the field of competition and strategy because it tackles perhaps the most basic question in both business management and industrial economics: What determines corporate performance? Votes: 2

Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply. Votes: 2

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics or medicine - the special pleading of selfish interests. Votes: 2

One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided to go into economics, so he's very analytical and mathematical in addition to his artsy side. Votes: 2

The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another. Votes: 2

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. Votes: 1

Let's give the individual the space to grow, instead of the economy Votes: 1

Official aid is more likely to retard development than to promote it Votes: 1

Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it Votes: 1

The study of economy usually shows us that the best time for purchase was last year Votes: 1

Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development. Votes: 1

The trouble with a budget is that it's hard to fill up one hole without digging another Votes: 1

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle Votes: 1

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name. Votes: 1

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn Votes: 1

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average. Votes: 1

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me. Votes: 1

A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t Votes: 1

The total alteration in underlying circumstances has not been squarely faced, As a result, we are guided, in part, by ideas that are relevant to another world. ... We do many things that are unnecessary, some that are unwise, and a few that are insane Votes: 1

There is a direct link between the federal tax cut of 2001 and state tax increases in 2003. When the federal government's mistakes force states to raise their taxes, it not only robs Peter to pay Paul, but it hurts hard-working families and it undermines our economy's strength Votes: 1

Software engineering economics. Votes: 0

Good environmentalism is good economics Votes: 0

Good economics is good politics. Votes: 0

Moore's law is really about economics. Votes: 0

No one is entertained by economics. Votes: 0

Keynesian economics has always been needed. Votes: 0

In economics, the majority is always wrong. Votes: 0

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture. Votes: 0

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist. Votes: 0

Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology. Votes: 0

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics. Votes: 0

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Votes: 0

Trickle down economics creates a nation of peons. Votes: 0

Politics is a continuation of economics by other means Votes: 0

My main interest, however, was in economics, not law. Votes: 0

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science. Votes: 0

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis. Votes: 0

Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism. Votes: 0

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine. Votes: 0

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable. Votes: 0

Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95. Votes: 0

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. Votes: 0

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values. Votes: 0

A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science. Votes: 0

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future. Votes: 0

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics. Votes: 0

Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win. Votes: 0

The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics. Votes: 0

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics. Votes: 0

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics. Votes: 0

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background. Votes: 0

Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it. Votes: 0

If you don't own Gold, you know neither history nor economics. Votes: 0

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over. Votes: 0

I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation. Votes: 0

Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics. Votes: 0

I am not prepared to accept the economics of a housewife. Votes: 0

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?' Votes: 0

As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy. Votes: 0

Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny. Votes: 0

I would say that reproductive freedom comes first, then violence and economics. Votes: 0

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better. Votes: 0

Marxian exploitation is the exploitation of people's lack of understanding of economics. Votes: 0

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect. Votes: 0

The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel. Votes: 0

The most basic law of economics?that one cannot get something for nothing. Votes: 0

The lesson from behavioral economics is that people only save if it's automatic. Votes: 0

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim. Votes: 0

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics Votes: 0

The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics. Votes: 0

Understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life. Votes: 0

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics Votes: 0

We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics Votes: 0

You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work. Votes: 0

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms. Votes: 0

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world. Votes: 0

I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics. Votes: 0

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics. Votes: 0

Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics. Votes: 0

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts (pure theory) and facts without theory Votes: 0

Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost. Votes: 0

I'm some sort of guinea pig in a home economics crash course for werewolves. Votes: 0

We can't do the same things the Yankees do. Given the economics, we'll lose. Votes: 0

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics. Votes: 0

The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems. Votes: 0

Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie. Votes: 0

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science Votes: 0

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists. Votes: 0

I'm not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics Votes: 0

A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research. Votes: 0

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one). Votes: 0

The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis. Votes: 0

economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans. Votes: 0

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights. Votes: 0

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Votes: 0

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. Votes: 0

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment. Votes: 0

No one should have to get a PhD in economics to survive in this economy. Votes: 0

I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person. Votes: 0

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people? Votes: 0

How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it? Votes: 0

As consumers and as voters we can say 'no' to rogue economics and demand regulation. Votes: 0

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense. Votes: 0

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense. Votes: 0

Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics. Votes: 0

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years. Votes: 0

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. Votes: 0

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology. Votes: 0

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics. Votes: 0

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds. Votes: 0

The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being. Votes: 0

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent Votes: 0

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics. Votes: 0

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics Votes: 0

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.' Votes: 0

Waiting for supply-side economics to work is like leaving the landing lights on for Amelia Earhart. Votes: 0

I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. Votes: 0

Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics. Votes: 0

The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility. Votes: 0

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around. Votes: 0

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy. Votes: 0

Bitcoin might revolutionise more than money or economics. It could transform the role and nature of government Votes: 0

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics. Votes: 0

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. Votes: 0

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics. Votes: 0

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right. Votes: 0

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always. Votes: 0

I entered economics because of a course I took on 'information economics,' which I found fascinating. Votes: 0

I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history. Votes: 0

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient. Votes: 0

The better the script, the less money there is. That's just the economics of the studio system. Votes: 0

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess. Votes: 0

The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order. Votes: 0

[I]ntrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research. Votes: 0

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics. Votes: 0

These days no one can make money on the goddamn airline business. The economics represent sheer hell. Votes: 0

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology. Votes: 0

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers. Votes: 0

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. Votes: 0

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity. Votes: 0

A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests. Votes: 0

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on. Votes: 0

It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal. Votes: 0

I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks Votes: 0

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere. Votes: 0

I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes. Votes: 0

By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking. Votes: 0

Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary. Votes: 0

My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics. Votes: 0

Spread the truth-the laws of economics are like the laws of engineering. One set of laws works everywhere. Votes: 0

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market. Votes: 0

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. Votes: 0

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book. Votes: 0

Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".~R. Alan Woods [2012] Votes: 0

Companies that start by redesigning the economics of an industry often finish by redesigning the whole industry-and owning it. Votes: 0

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics. Votes: 0

I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better. Votes: 0

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking. Votes: 0

I'm a Ph.D. in economics, and so you analyze every situation uniquely because every international situation is unique. Votes: 0

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class. Votes: 0

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt. Votes: 0

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of "just this once. Votes: 0

But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability. Votes: 0

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness. Votes: 0

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. Votes: 0

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. Its shocking. Votes: 0

While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make. Votes: 0

I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics. Votes: 0

I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics. Votes: 0

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics. Votes: 0

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. Votes: 0

What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources. Votes: 0

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion. Votes: 0

The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process. Votes: 0

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change. Votes: 0

The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law. Votes: 0

The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion. Votes: 0

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. Votes: 0

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. Votes: 0

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics. Votes: 0

We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet. Votes: 0

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once. Votes: 0

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail. Votes: 0

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. Votes: 0

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system. Votes: 0

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff. Votes: 0

I have a dream, there will be critical point in the future,where economics and technology will negate each other. Votes: 0

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics. Votes: 0

You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today. Votes: 0

Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't. Votes: 0

I have a dream, there will be critical point in the future,where economics and technology will negate each other." Votes: 0

America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people. Votes: 0

I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics. Votes: 0

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally. Votes: 0

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is. Votes: 0

So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics. Votes: 0

We can use economic instruments to help realize our goals but economics does not tell us what our goals should be. Votes: 0

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't. Votes: 0

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics. Votes: 0

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism. Votes: 0

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics). Votes: 0

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous. Votes: 0

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry. Votes: 0

The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important. Votes: 0

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever. Votes: 0

It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line. Votes: 0

Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man. Votes: 0

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security. Votes: 0

But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun. Votes: 0

I think the world is becoming more global. Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product. Votes: 0

One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in. Votes: 0

My friends, that's trickle-down economics, and I believe every worker in America is tired of being trickled on by George W. Bush Votes: 0

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about. Votes: 0

I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it. Votes: 0

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass Votes: 0

The American people are growing extremely unhappy with establishment politics, with establishment economics, and you know what else? Even with establishment media. Votes: 0

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly. Votes: 0

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies. Votes: 0

We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin. Votes: 0

Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support. Votes: 0

The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility). Votes: 0

Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology. Votes: 0

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history. Votes: 0

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything. Votes: 0

Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study. Votes: 0

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

By philosophy, history, economics and science, all knowledge and wisdom, humanity may eventually arrive at the awareness of its own oneness.... Sudipta Das Votes: 0

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection. Votes: 0

Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world. Votes: 0

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure. Votes: 0

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on. Votes: 0

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so. Votes: 0

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other. Votes: 0

The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks. Votes: 0

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science. Votes: 0

The division yin and yang pervades all culture, history, economics, nature itself; modern Western versions of sex discrimination are only the most recent layer. Votes: 0

In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality. Votes: 0

"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool." Votes: 0

Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work, wheareas economics represents how it actually does work. Votes: 0

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics. Votes: 0

Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error. Votes: 0

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already. Votes: 0

The future is female, so women are invited, as they do, to take responsability in the world of politics, in the economics, in art Votes: 0

Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is about politics. Votes: 0

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table. Votes: 0

I think economics, content, and the ability to interact with content in new and different ways are what will drive the adoption of e-books. Votes: 0

I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it. Votes: 0

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals. Votes: 0

Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning. Votes: 0

Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre. Votes: 0

The lnternet is turning economics inside-out. For example, everybody on the internet now wants stuff for free and there are so many free services available. Votes: 0

Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media. Votes: 0

Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture. Votes: 0

It's a fundamental aspect of the free enterprise system and economics: If there's no penalty associated with increased costs, why not lay on increased costs? Votes: 0

I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics and behavioral psychology. Votes: 0

Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist. Votes: 0

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed. Votes: 0

What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow. Votes: 0

Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science. Votes: 0

It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on nearly everything fundamental. Votes: 0

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want. Votes: 0

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously. Votes: 0

We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Players Association has on the table a demand which doesn't recognize the reality of our league's economics today. It's a very excessive and unrealistic demand. Votes: 0

If you have a traditional view of economics, you're probably thinking of Ben Bernanke making Fed policy, or the guys creating financial derivatives at Goldman Sachs. Votes: 0

When it comes to economics, president-elect [Donald] Trump has promised to revive American manufacturing, get tough on trade with China, cut taxes and invest in infrastructure. Votes: 0

In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices. Votes: 0

The Democrats have been there for working people in our country. That's who we are, trickle-down vs. middle-class economics. That's the major difference between the parties. Votes: 0

Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with the soul. Votes: 0

There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . . Votes: 0

The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other sciences. Votes: 0

It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions. Votes: 0

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties. Votes: 0

At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper. Votes: 0

All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell. Votes: 0

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision. Votes: 0

In 1997, we faced daunting challenges. Boom and bust economics..... Now, for all that remains to be done, dwell for a moment on what has been achieved. Votes: 0

As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country. Votes: 0

Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.' Votes: 0

Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole. Votes: 0

I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work. Votes: 0

The message is resonating, not just in Wisconsin, but all over America, the people are sick and tired of establishment politics, establishment economics. They want real change. Votes: 0

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics. Votes: 0

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery. Votes: 0

Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large. Votes: 0

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious. Votes: 0

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated. Votes: 0

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics. Votes: 0

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics. Votes: 0

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form of brain-damaging indoctrination. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists. Votes: 0

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom. Votes: 0

I think just focusing on the wealth of these cabinet picks misunderstands [Donald] Trump's economic strategy here, which is going to be equal parts traditional Republican economics. Votes: 0

We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm trying to do. Votes: 0

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics. Votes: 0

Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods. Votes: 0

I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working. Votes: 0

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error. Votes: 0

Everywhere I go, I see incredible examples of communities that have a vision for transportation and how it will impact the quality of life, mobility, economics and opportunity. Votes: 0

When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact Votes: 0

So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics. Votes: 0

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on. Votes: 0

When goods are digital, they can be replicated with perfect quality at nearly zero cost, and they can be delivered almost instantaneously. Welcome to the economics of abundance. Votes: 0

We girls should have to change a tire or take a 'change your oil' class in high school instead of taking home economics, because we'd benefit from that. Votes: 0

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit. Votes: 0

While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit. Votes: 0

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world. Votes: 0

The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters. Votes: 0

I'll be a president that will turn our inner cities around and will give strength to people and will give economics to people and will bring jobs back. Votes: 0

And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics. Votes: 0

It's just economics 101: When it's free to pollute, you get more pollution. But when there's a price to pay, industry will have an incentive to find low-cost carbon solutions. Votes: 0

Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens." Votes: 0

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil ... Votes: 0

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. Votes: 0

When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries. Votes: 0

The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy. Votes: 0

Home economics - kids in school used to be taught how to shop, how to cook from scratch, how to be in control of their diets. Doesn't happen anymore. Votes: 0

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion. Votes: 0

(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss Votes: 0

The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul. Votes: 0

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. Votes: 0

While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change. Votes: 0

There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension of the forces at work in the world. Votes: 0

Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ... that the general rules of economics do not apply. Votes: 0

Kelsoism is not accepted by modern scientific economics as a valid and fruitful analysis of the distribution of income but rather it is regarded as an amateurish and cranky fad. Votes: 0

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective. Votes: 0

I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not so dogmatic that I wouldn't listen to them. Votes: 0

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT. Votes: 0

In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else. Votes: 0

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate. Votes: 0

Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going to make him money or save him money. Votes: 0

We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When it does, we're in real trouble. Votes: 0

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate. Votes: 0

All my life... I believed in Malaysian merger and unity of the two territories. You know that we, as a people, are connected by geography, economics, by ties of kinship. Votes: 0

Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality. Votes: 0

What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics. Votes: 0

I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids. Votes: 0

One reason that we eat processed foods is the decline of home economics. Restarting home economics classes is one of the key things we could do to get this issue moving. Votes: 0

I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser. Votes: 0

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics. Votes: 0

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year. Votes: 0

My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage. Votes: 0

I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius. Votes: 0

The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier. Votes: 0

There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually. Votes: 0

What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do. Votes: 0

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself. Votes: 0

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics. Votes: 0

In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole. Votes: 0

To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great. Votes: 0

If we can go some way to creating a vibrant anaerobic digestion industry here in the U.K., we will be reaching our goals both in terms of economics and the environment. Votes: 0

I think I couldn't do what I do [live without money] without studying economics, because you need to understand the system first - how it currently works - in order to change it. Votes: 0

Before 'Life of Pi,' I wanted to do economics. And now, I realize how bad a mistake that would have been. I just can't see it as my cup of tea anymore. Votes: 0

Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness. Votes: 0

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way. Votes: 0

On one project I was hanging out with Brad Pitt, and Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carrel, and Christian Bale, and trying to explain economics to them for a movie I'm an advisor on. Votes: 0

I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it. Votes: 0

I think it's wrong to think of economics as money. The actual word itself actually revolves around meeting one's needs. Money is one way of meeting our needs, but it's only one way. Votes: 0

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power. Votes: 0

We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed. Votes: 0

Some years ago an excellent professor of economics told his class in his gravelly voice, 'If you pay me $50,000 a year to solve a problem, I damned sure ain't going to solve it.' Votes: 0

People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance. Votes: 0

People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance Votes: 0

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life. Votes: 0

The Tea Party we were told is only about economics; not true. It was always about economics and social issues. They just hid the social issues and now we just see who they really are. Votes: 0

I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen. Votes: 0