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Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.

Politics is a continuation of economics by other means

Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back

Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure.

Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do.

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

Science advances funeral by funeral

Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.

So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics.

So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor.

Software engineering economics.

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.

Spread the truth-the laws of economics are like the laws of engineering. One set of laws works everywhere.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and you follow it, or you don't know much about it and you don't want to know.

Studying economics is not a good preparation for dealing with it.

Supply creates its own demand.

Target SME's and you target women because that is where they access the business sector.

The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom; that is precisely what is happening. In a low growth economy, the true meaning of resource efficiency in business and in everything we do is essential

The analyses ... often become too competent to be comprehensible.

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.

The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live

The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties

The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard to think of anything else

The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.

The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a department is a necessity as a means of developing a society. It stands for the evolution of women's work and place.

The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared

The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.

The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market

The economics of industrialized countries would collapse if women didn't do the work they do for free: According to economist Marilyn Waring, throughout the West it generates between 25 and 40 percent of the gross national product.

The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.

The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents, has missed his vocation.

The entire point of life is to find ways to get others to do your work for you. Don’t you know anything about basic economics?

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.