Quotes About Economics

All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.

We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

Patience in Market, is worth Pounds in a year.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.

But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

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

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.