Quotes About Economics

Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.

The economic victims of the era are men who who know someone has made off with their future- and they suspect the thief is a woman.

I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .

Our whole goal is to drive the cost of taking an Uber BELOW the cost of owning a car.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

The goal of what Japan's central bank is doing is to create growth. If it actually creates growth, in the long run, it will lead to appreciation.

Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue his profit goals.

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

What's the difference between beer nuts and deer nuts? Beer nuts are $1.50 and deer nuts are under a buck.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question.

Affluence creates poverty.

There is no Death with Dignity when people choose to die because health care economics and the social services system prevent life with dignity.

There is danger in speaking so generally about "liberalism," a danger that has often plagued feminist debates. "Liberalism" is not a single position but a family of positions; Kantian liberalism is profoundly different from classical Utilitarian liberalism, and both of these from the Utilitarianism currently dominant in neoclassical economics.

The Law of Rent demonstrates that no single human being gives land and location its overall value - its rent. Land values arise from the wealth that exists in the surrounding area, wealth that we have created together and continue to create in cooperation and in competition with one another.

Economists Mason Gaffney and Fred Harrison claim in their work The Corruption of Economics that industrialists toward the end of the 19th century may have intentionally created and promoted a new brand of economics (neoclassical) to divert public attention from the monopolization of nature. Neoclassical economics treats nature as capital - a resource to be exploited.

The expected value of something is not a good guide to its price.

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

Por definición, los Estados son monopólicos, pero recursos tales como personas, ideas, tecnologías y capitales se trasladan de una jurisdicción a otra, generando condiciones de una cierta competencia, donde la jurisdicción que posea buenas instituciones atraerá recursos, mientras que la que no las tenga los expulsará.