Have you heard the joke about the chemist, physicist and economist who get wrecked on a desert isle, with a huge supply of canned baked beans as their only food? The chemist says that he can start a fire using the neighbouring palm trees, and calcula...
Is precisely in market dealings that market prices are formed for all kinds of goods and services, which will be taken as the bases of calculation. Where there is no free market, there is no pricing mechanism; without a pricing mechanism, there is no...
There is a strange idea abroad, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because he already has marketable assets of a greater cash val...
The traditional, correct pre-Marxist view on exploitation was that of radical laissez-faire liberalism as espoused by, for instance, Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer. According to them, antagonistic interests do not exist between capitalists, as own...
For every 100 women who earn a bachelors degree, 75 men do so. For every 100 American women who earn a Masters degree, 66 American men do so. For every 100 females, ages 20 to 24, who commit suicide, 624 males do so. For every 100 women, ages 18 to 2...
An economy that depends on slavery needs to promote images of slaves that “justify” the institution of slavery. The contemporary economy depends right now on the representation of women within the beauty myth. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith off...
the parts of the brain corresponding to the limbic system (thought to respond only to more visceral, immediate rewards) were activated only when the decision involved comparing a reward today with one in the future. In contrast, the lateral prefronta...
I try to make the best of the opportunities that have been given to me.
In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.
The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
When you have the opportunity, you strike.
As an artist, motive means opportunity
Dare to seize all the opportunities on your paths.
Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.
In the ashes of adversity, lies opportunity.
What I want is the same opportunities as anyone to get a part.
I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.
Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.
Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
