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Quotes About Economics

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.
~ Harry Browne
The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage.
~ Hazel Henderson
I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.
~ John Stossel
Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.
~ Peter Schiff
Socialism is a new form of slavery.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.
~ John Derbyshire
The American people are growing extremely unhappy with establishment politics, with establishment economics, and you know what else? Even with establishment media.
~ Bernie Sanders
If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.
~ Milton Friedman
I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media.
~ Bernie Sanders
Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.
~ Llewellyn Rockwell
Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.
~ Eugene Hutz
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
~ Emma Goldman
Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
~ Jim Hightower
Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet.
~ Marianne Thieme
All I know is I'm not a Marxist.
~ Karl Marx
Economics is really politics in disguise.
~ Hazel Henderson
Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.
~ Chris Hedges
The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.
~ Vandana Shiva
It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.
~ Aldous Huxley
When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.
~ Rachel Held Evans