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Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.

He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

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 am not against a little inflation.

He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention

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

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

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 sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

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

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 care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics.

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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 got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

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

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.