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A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.

A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.

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

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

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

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Economics is a social science, not a physical science.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.