Quotes About Economics

How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn't work?

We have the knowledge, resources, and capabilities to make global capitalism work in a more inclusive and socially responsible manner while retaining - indeed enhancing - its economic benefits.

Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.

Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

I am an economic person; I judge the amount of work involved with the amount of worth attained.

I've done work for both Democrats and Republicans.

Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.

I just want to do the least work in the least time and make the most money.

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.

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.

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.

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.

The market doesn't make communities. Markets make networks of self-interested individuals, and they work as long as there's more than enough to go around.

Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work.

Now, people have a hard time understanding how taxes work.

Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.

You can't get to a balanced budget and begin to pay down debt and thus create jobs in this country if you don't have specific plans to make it work.

Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.

I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.

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

If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?

Samuelson spotted a mistake in Bacheliers work. Bachelier's model had failed to consider that stock prices cannot fall below zero.