Quotes About Economics

Competition is only good up to a point. When supply exceeds demand

It is interesting that after the Pilgrim Fathers tried communism, they abandoned it in favor of a free enterprise type of Capitalism which, over the centuries, has become more highly developed in the United States than in any other nation.

When Karl Marx was asked what his objective in life was, he said, "To dethrone God and destroy capitalism!

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

If freedom were not so economically efficient it certainly wouldn't stand a chance.

The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more efficient than any other form of organization.

You could be disqualified for a job [at Harvard] if you were either smart or Jewish or Keynesian. So what chance did this smart, Jewish, Keynesian have?

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind of sociology, as is documentary photography.

The process of globalization has now interconnected almost everything ranging from financial markets to transport networks to communication systems in a huge system that no one really understands.

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.

When I started at [Nina] Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, Freakonomics."-Adam Pazandak

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.

And yet this stagnation is a big reason why I am an optimistic skeptic. We know that in so much of what people want to predict—politics, economics, finance, business, technology, daily life—predictability exists, to some degree, in some circumstances. But there is so much else we do not know.

Jesus' story makes no economic sense, and that was his intent. He was giving us a parable about grace, which cannot be calculated like a day's wages. Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting.

All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth

Ora, è chiaro altresì che, per le dure leggi del commercio, quanto è di vantaggio a chi vende è svantaggio a chi compra, e viceversa