Economics Quotes

I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

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

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.

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

But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.