Quotes About Economics

The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency.

If you had a basic income, it would mean that everybody would have a base on top of which their earned income would be taxed at the standard rate of tax. That would increase the incentive to take low-wage jobs.

Standardized sizes made inexpensive, off-the-rack garments economically feasible. They gave shoppers a reliable guide to finding clothes in self-service shops.

The great challenge of the 21st century is to provide good standards of living for 7 billion people without depleting the earth's resources or running up massive levels of public debt. To achieve this, government and business alike will need to find new models of growth that are in both environmental and economic balance.

I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

It's essential that we understand things like the free-rider problem, but we also need to understand that, fortunately, humans are a little nicer than economists give them credit for. Some people actually leave money at roadside fruit stands; some people give money to NPR so we can listen to it.

All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

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

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.