Quotes About Economics

Socialism is politicized envy.

the Handbook of Economics series (which has volumes on agriculture, development, education, labor, and many other sectors), the Annual Review of Economics, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives are all good sources for reviews

Left-wing policies don't stop the rich from being rich, they stop the non-rich from getting rich.

I do not think anything should be given for free. Everything has a price attached to it.

Each dollar taxed and spent deprives Americans of the freedom to make their own choices.

It's a travesty that there are people on this planet living on less than a dollar a day.

Government can only spend a dollar to help someone when it forcibly takes a dollar from someone else.

We have a responsibility to do better as black people in this country. I don't care how white people look at you - I care that we have a one-trillion-dollar spending base, and if you want to see change, you have to start to focus on, economically, how can we change our communities.

I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since.

The reversion of American society to a nation of the superrich and the rest... is straining the country in ways that go way beyond economics.

Economics has become as riveting as politics.

Keynesian economics has always been needed.

Economics is counterintuitive. It just is.

I never, never in my life took a course in economics.

I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of money.

I think most politicians have almost no understanding of economics; otherwise, they wouldn't have become politicians.

The economics of life is against the family.

My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.

I was a business major in college, so I knew economics.

I had the offer of places at Leicester and Loughborough to study financial economics.

To me, economics doesn't need to be political.

I have to find the story relatable or at least interesting to be a part of it. Then there are times when I take up films to balance my economics.

You know and I know and economists know that trickle-down economics doesn't work.

One of the ways I think you make more money is by creating more efficiency.