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

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

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.

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

If something cannot go on for ever, it will stop

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.

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

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

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

In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.

In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.

In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists.

I never wanted to be a businessman, I just wanted to change the world

Inflation takes from the ignorant and gives to the well informed.

In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.

Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results

In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.

Intrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.

Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology.

Investment is a flighty bird which needs to be controlled.

I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics and behavioral psychology.