Quotes About Economics

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

What counts today, the question which is looming on the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity must reply to this question, or be shaken to pieces by it.

In the colonies the economic infrastructure is also a superstructure. The cause is effect: you are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich."33

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The indignation school of writers never tires of pointing out the millions that are stolen in the Street. But while the millions are being stolen, the billions are being lost. Nothing crooked—just bad luck and bad brains met together in an effort to do something that couldn't be done in the first place.

More than ever, the "free market" turns neighbors into rivals and neighborhoods into covert battlegrounds.

The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else.

You say There are persons who have no money, and you turn to the law. But the law is not a breast that fills itself with milk.

Privatization is a bitter pill but it is a pill that will cure.

the expenditure on health care within the most prosperous societies of the West had risen generally to around 10 per cent of Gross

Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

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?

My dear friend, 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? - Breeze

There's no profit in peace.

Sexism interfered with profits.

To believe that the rich do not use their money to buy influence and promote policies they like is not simply to be naïve. Such a stance contradicts the key principles of economics as well as the ways in which the rich people have amassed their wealth—surely not by throwing it around while expecting no return on it.

The fact that the entire globe now operates according to the same economic princi­ples—­production or­ga­nized for profit using legally ­free wage labor and mostly privately owned capital, with decentralized coordination—is without historical pre­ce­dent.