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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

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.

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

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

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.

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

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.

Economics and ethics have little in common.

Economics departments are dominated by Marxism, which is taken straight or on the rocks, in the form of Keynesianism.

Economics is really politics in disguise.

Economics is the continuation of energy/resources by other means.

economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

Economics is a social science, not a physical science.

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

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.