Economics Quotes

Demand is best measured in terms of spending. You know, I think in traditional economics, it's a mistake to measure it in terms of the quantity of goods.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

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

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

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

The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.

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

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.

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

I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.

I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.'

Economics is not brain surgery.

People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

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