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There is no business on a dead planet

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted

There's something really special for a young person to sit in an audience and discover somebody, and it's rare to do because so much of a movie's economics are based on pre-existing actors or actresses.

The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.

The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

The Tea Party we were told is only about economics; not true. It was always about economics and social issues. They just hid the social issues and now we just see who they really are.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.

Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge.

The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.

Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution

The things that get rewarded, get done

The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them..and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.

This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.

To balance Fortune by a just expense, Join with Economy, Magnificence.

To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

Trickle down economics creates a nation of peons.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Trump's junk economics is the illusion that if we cut the taxes on the wealthiest brackets, it'll all trickle down. But it doesn't trickle down.

[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

We are far more effective on the inside looking out than the outside looking in.

Wealth is knowledge and its origin is evolution

We are confronted by the appearance of social institutions unintentionally created, vital for the welfare of society, which are not the result of reasoned planning

We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say

We believe responsible business can be profitable business

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

We have one asset, and that's people.

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.

Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.

We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.

Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people "must" behave.

What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.