Quotes About Economics

Money is being made programmable. That's a fundamental change with implications we can still barely see.

Quite a few plays I have written have an implicit critique of capitalism in that, if you follow it through to its end, what happens to the people who are left behind?

I have been advocating for a long time that the Export Import Bank shouldn't be for one or two companies, and that's what it's for, basically.

I majored in economics in college. Certain things were just out, like chemistry or biology, or science or math, that was just out of the question. That's just an aptitude impossibility, I couldn't have done it.

I was paid more for the serialization rights for each book than I got as an advance for my first novel. In other words, there is an economic value in serialization in and of itself.

That is football. In the end, all clubs spend money.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

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

Expenditures rise to meet income.

Countries with higher incomes on average achieve better human development. I do not believe that growth alone will 'cure' poverty. But I do believe that growth is necessary.

Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.

The claim that if people had a basic income they would become lazy is prejudiced and has been refuted many times in many places.

For a nation, the choices that determine whether income doubles in one generation or two dwarf all other economic policy concerns.

A tax is something people pay out of income.

Instead of a universal basic income, we could have a basic income guarantee. Or, as economists prefer to call it, a negative income tax.

But I would bet that the euro continues to exist and that its importance as a global currency will likely increase.

We've got to keep the cost of watching football down. If that means players getting the same money for a few years rather than a 25 per cent increase every time, that's fine.

The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

As we all know, the budget decisions which give rise to increased debt are what counts, and the debt is just a by-product of those budget decisions.

You can tax the rich to pay for current spending. You can even tax them very heavily. But when the rich look forward for decades and see nothing but increasing taxes, debts, and government control of their businesses and assets - they will leave.

The people who run the country have enormous influence over the culture, politics, and the economics of the country. And increasingly, they haven't a clue about how most of America lives. They have never experienced it.

Increasingly, Americans don't own America.

To me, I don't have any problems. I don't have economic problems. I have an independent life.

En fait, la doctrine du ciel n'est pas figée. C'est vrai qu'ils ont eu des penchants égalitaristes. Mais tout a changé avec l'arrivée des Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, et quantité d'apôtres de la déréglementation qui ont commencé à faire leur propagande ici-même. - Vous voulez dire qu'aujourd'hui... - Je veux dire qu'aujourd'hui, sous leur influence, le ciel est devenu carrément néo-libéral.