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An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.

Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.

Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some of these unconscious things that we don't have a handle on at all.

By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.

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

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.

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

Commercial organisations that operate responsibly have benefitted by increased revenues of 682% compared to 166% for those that don't

Contrary to economists' beliefs, the informal sectors of the world's economies, in total, are predominant, and the institutionalized, monetized sectors grow out of them and rest upon them, rather than the reverse.

Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.

Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ... that the general rules of economics do not apply.

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics. That's a dangerous slope, because the problem of course is you're not undermining just that, you're undermining the basis of rational decision-making in society.

Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

Economics spreads happiness.

Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive.

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

Economics are part of our life. We try to treat them separately, like over there is the economy and here is history. Econ affects history and history often doesn't get it right if it doesn't respect econ.

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

Economics is not brain surgery.

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

Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.

Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation