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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 socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

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.

If something cannot go on for ever, it will stop

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

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.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

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.

Inflation is like toothpaste. Once it's out, you can hardly get it back in again.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

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

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.

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

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

Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology.

Investment is a flighty bird which needs to be controlled.

It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

It is easy to be compassionate with other people's money

It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

It is not the responsibility of the Federal Bank - nor would it be appropriate - to protect lenders and investors from the consequences of their decisions

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

It is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments of living; that free scope should be given to varieties of character, short of injury to others.