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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.

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

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

Economics is a form of brain damage.

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

Economics is too important to leave to the economists.

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

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.

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.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.

Economics is not an exact science.

Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources.