Quotes About Economics

There is no free lunch.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

Patriotism is just an idea, so is capitalism or communism. But ideas can make men forget their own interests. And the guys in charge will exploit men who believe in ideas too much

Patriotism is just an idea, so is capitalism or communism. But ideas can make men forget their own interests. And the guys in charge will exploit men who believe in ideas too much. You

Patriotism is just an idea, so is capitalism or communism. But ideas can make men forget their own interests. And

Needless to say, it is a perpetual loop of economic gender cruelty to require women to pay for their physical upkeep and then to punish them financially for not keeping up when they don't have the funds.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

Capitalism is greed driven.

La idea tradicional de que es inevitable que las desigualdades económicas persistan e incluso empeoren hace que todos seamos, en cierto modo, marxistas.

Los economistas han demostrado que es, por ejemplo, lo que ocurre en la emigración: las personas emigran no porque sufran una privación absoluta, sino una privación relativa; no porque sean pobres, sino porque son conscientes de que pueden vivir mejor. Cuanto más contacto tenemos unos con otros, más aspiraciones genera ese contacto.

But on the political front, the Golden Straitjacket narrows the political and economic policy choices of those in power to relatively tight parameters. . . .

the world market for cheap labor exceeds even the market for cheap sex.

660 million Chinese have escaped poverty since 1981, for example. In Asia, the percentage of those living in extreme poverty dropped from 77 percent of the population in the 1980s to 14 percent in 1998.

AL QAEDA SPENT ABOUT $500,000 TO PRODUCE 9/11, WHEREAS THE direct losses of that day's destruction plus the costs of the American response to the attacks were $3.3 trillion. In other words, for every dollar Al Qaeda spent planning and executing the attacks, the United States spent $7 million.1 The costs of 9/11 equal one-fifth of the US national debt.

Economists and sociologists have concluded that what drives migration is not absolute deprivation,50 or poverty,

Like some kind of migratory bird, money has long had special places to go when it wishes to reproduce in peace.

Si todos los productos son iguales, el más barato es el que hay que comprar. A menos que produzca sensaciones que estimulen al cliente a pagar más.

With their ability to move billions of dollars at the speed of light away from a country whose economic policies they distrust, hedge funds are just one of the many financial institutions whose

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much mon- ey will it bring in?     —Alexis de Tocqueville, letter to Ernest de Chabrol, June 9, 1831                                         1

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian