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Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you do then? I suppose you die.

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

Good environmentalism is good economics

Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.

Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.

He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.

I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday they transform the passage of time and analyze the economics and politics of the instruments of living.

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

I am not against a little inflation.

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics.

I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.

I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics.

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.

I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.

I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.

If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would.

I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not so dogmatic that I wouldn't listen to them.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas

If something cannot go on for ever, it will stop

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

If you don't own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible.

If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics.

I have never read it. You should not waste your time.

I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.