Quotes About Economics

Estadísticas aparte, Lewis pasaría a la historia por ser el economista que había ideado una fórmula para la felicidad: R/E, o, lo que es lo mismo, Realidad dividido por Expectativas. Había dos caminos para ser feliz: o bien mejorar la realidad, o bien rebajar las expectativas.

Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy's information, political

The problem with capitalism is that we have a global theology without morality, without a Bible. And that's dangerous, he warns - we're not going to be able to exist in a global context if we are the bastards of our business.

Whenever an economic sector cloisters itself behind opaqueness, it will begin taking environmental, social, and economic shortcuts. Integrity occurs when people can see what's going in at the front door and what's coming out the back door. Absent that accountability, you lose integrity.

It was also not difficult to forecast that no matter how well endowed they were with material resources those countries where the Industrial Revolution arrived late would change proportionately more slowly. After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children.

Even a selected display of one's early work will be a naked history of one's struggle to receive an education in economics and love.

Vladimir Putin rose to lead Russia to victory over the Wharton School of Economics' plan to bleed Russia dry. As we shall see elsewhere, the Sachs model called for selling Russia's vast State owned industries to private companies at distress prices.

and Hoffman la Roche, manufacturers of Valium. The cost of the raw material and manufacturing of Valium to Hoffman la Roche is $3 per kilo (2.2 pounds). It is sold to their distributors for $20,000 per kilo. By the time it reaches the consumer, the price of Valium has risen to $50,000 per kilo. Valium is used in huge quantities in Europe and the United States. It is possibly the most used drug of its kind in the world.

If the government could tax broken hearts, there would be no deficit.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

He has said you can be a capitalist, and be a good person, or be a communist, and be good. What you can't be is a terrorist and a good person.

Eliminating the death tax is particularly important for the many small business owners and family farmers that call Central Washington home.

Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.

I am always interested in designing things that have a great price point attached to it.

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

Our look evolved from the fact that we bought thrift-store clothes. It wasn't like, 'Let adopt a thrift-store aesthetic.' We just didn't have any money.