Quotes About Economics

A young population, then, can have contradictory implications for production, since such bulges in population can be an economic burden during the period that its members are infants and young children, but the bulge then contributes to a boom when those children grow into their productive years – and then again it becomes a burden when they grow old, especially if the

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

The fallacy the economic determinists have tied around our collective neck, and which we now need to cast off, is the belief that economics determines all land-use. This is simply not true. An innumerable host of actions and attitudes, comprising perhaps the bulk of all land relations, is determined by the land-users' tastes and predilections, rather than by his purse.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

At the end of the Cold War, workers received an estimated eleven cents of every dollar they earned for their employer. Thirty years later, they made less than six cents on the dollar. In effect, the personal returns employees received for their labor were cut in half.

Each was the inevitable consequence of its predecessor, and all of them stemmed from the initial decision to set the price of bread far below its real price: that is to say, rather than leave things to the natural law of supply and demand.

When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism

I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off

the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humors which have so often kindled into wars.

Alexander Hamilton

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.

Les lois des relations humaines nous sont encore inconnues. La sociologie et l'économie politique ne sont que des sciences conjecturales, des pseudo-sciences.

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

If you like Obama, if you like a Washington that offers free stuff and taxing the rich, that's what you get. I don't see him evolving as a president.

Washington is too expensive.

Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101.

I'm sure the apple guys from Washington state or the corn guy from Iowa will not like tariffs on corn or apples.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

One of the most horrible wastes of capital you see is the duplication of the effort by the car manufacturers to do things that appear to be different from the other guy.

I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.