Quotes About Economics

Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.

Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

It was important to me to put together a future history that would scan, and serve as the backdrop to the domestic story. Economics is really what drives the plot.

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

Any damn fool can build homes. What counts is how many you can sell for how little.

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

Anything short of the discipline and honesty of a true gold coin standard will inevitably self-destruct, consuming our wealth and liberties, and nurturing the omnipotent state.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed.

Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.

The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long as we might hope.

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

I hate to say it, but because of humanity's capitalistic nature, money is important.

Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.