Quotes on Economics

The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me.

Author: Armand Assante

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.

Author: Lewis Black

Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.

Author: Earl Blumenauer

Now, of course, cold fusion is the daddy of them all in a way, in terms of value, so I think that viewed in a social way, from the point of social considerations and economics, it will tell you that this thing will stay around.

Author: Martin Fleischmann

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

Author: John Galbraith

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

Author: John Galbraith

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?

Author: Friedrich Hayek

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.

Author: Rudolf Hilferding

Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

Author: Lyndon Johnson

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.

Author: Nikita Khrushchev

We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.

Author: Ron Kind

My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.

Author: James Meade

My main interest, however, was in economics, not law.

Author: Merton Miller

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

Author: Simon Newcomb

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.

Author: Harrison Salisbury

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

Author: Amartya Sen

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

Author: Vernon Smith

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

Author: Joseph Stiglitz

This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.

Author: William Vickrey