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Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy.

As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.

Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.

Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some of these unconscious things that we don't have a handle on at all.

But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.

Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.

By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

Conservatism must be based on allowing everyone to become an owner - equity for everyman.

Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

Commercial organisations that operate responsibly have benefitted by increased revenues of 682% compared to 166% for those that don't

Contrary to economists' beliefs, the informal sectors of the world's economies, in total, are predominant, and the institutionalized, monetized sectors grow out of them and rest upon them, rather than the reverse.

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.

Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ... that the general rules of economics do not apply.

Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics. That's a dangerous slope, because the problem of course is you're not undermining just that, you're undermining the basis of rational decision-making in society.

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.

Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

Economics is a form of brain damage.

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

Economics is too important to leave to the economists.

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only reader on whose interest you can count.

Economics and ethics have little in common.