Quotes About Economics

You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios.

I joined Red Chillies entertainment right after I returned from the London School of Economics in 2007.

Este error en la entrega postal se produjo debido a la forma en que los incentivos económicos se entrelazan con los problemas de identidad en el comportamiento humano. Ser pobre es ser invisible a ojos de los demás seres humanos, y la indignidad de la invisibilidad resulta a menudo peor que la falta de recursos.

economic grievances become much more acute when they are attached to feelings of indignity and disrespect.

Os economistas baseiam toda uma teoria de comportamento social nesta premissa individualista. A teoria económica da ação coletiva defende que os indivíduos se agregam em grupos sobretudo como um meio de maximizar os seus próprios interesses individuais e não por qualquer motivo de sociabilidade natural.

Between 2000 and 2016, half of Americans saw no gains to their real incomes; the proportion of national output going to the top 1 percent went from 9 percent of GDP in 1974 to 24 percent in 2008.5

Uno de los hallazgos claros de la economía conductual experimental es que las personas son mucho más sensibles a las pérdidas que a las ganancias.

They squared this circle by creating a set of usufructuary (usage) rights that could be bought, sold, mortgaged, or transferred, in which the state nonetheless retained formal ownership.

Some people today argue that religion is primarily a source of violence, conflict, and social discord.25 Historically, however, religion has played the opposite role: it is a source of social cohesion that permits human beings to cooperate far more widely and securely than they would if they were the simple rational and self-interested agents posited by the economists.

Darwinism was the animalization of Cultureman by means of biology; the human soul was interpreted as a mere superior technique of fighting with other animals. We come now to Marxism, the animalization of man through economics, the human soul as a mere reflex of food, clothing and shelter.

The same politicians who demand the abolition of all impediments to the mobility of goods and services have been busily erecting mighty barriers to rebuff an accompanying wave of human beings. In

the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt.

Los grupos económicos pueden definirse como un conjunto de empresas de naturaleza y especialidades diversas, dirigidas de acuerdo a una política común […], manteniendo éstas, al interior del grupo su autonomía jurídica» (el énfasis es nuestro) (Anaya, 1990, p. 19).

Qué acaso no es un interés directo de la Casa Blanca defender los negocios de las empresas americanas en lugar de favorecer a nuestros competidores de cualquier parte del mundo?

Trees and branches are what nation states cling to; waves are what markets do.

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. Freedom

More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run by perhaps a hundred men. Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.

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