As the Wall Street Journal called our economic plan, supply-side economics for the working man, is resonating in Minnesota and here in Missouri and across this country.
I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.
The first essential for economists. . . is to. . . combat, not foster, the ideology which pretends that values which can be measured in terms of money are the only ones that ought to count.
The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.
The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.
The personal is not just political. It is also economic.
There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.
[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
Where combination is possible, competition is impossible.
Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options and centralised political control limits the options. The best recipe is adaptive efficiency coping with novel uncertainty in a non-ergodic world, the maintenance of institutions which enable trial & error experiment to occur, and an effective means of eliminating unsuccessful solutions
The economics of television syndication and DVD sales mean that there's a tremendous financial pressure to make programs that can be watched multiple times, revealing new nuances and shadings on the third viewing. Meanwhile, the Web has created a forum for annotation and commentary that allows more complicated shows to prosper, thanks to the fan sites where each episode of shows like 'Lost' or 'Alias' is dissected with an intensity usually reserved for Talmud scholars.
The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.
Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies.
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.
Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.
. . . it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.
