To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.
That economics has a considerable conceptual apparatus with an appropriate terminology can not be a serious ground for complaint. Economic phenomena, ideas, instruments of analysis exist. They require names. Education in economics is, in considerable...
Economics ought to be a magpie discipline, taking in philosophy, history and politics. But heterodox approaches have long since been banished from most faculties, claims Tony Lawson. In the 1970s, when he started teaching at Cambridge, the economics ...
Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it h...
Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatmen...
Billy Beane: Where you from, Pete? Peter Brand: Maryland. Billy Beane: Where'd you go to school? Peter Brand: Yale. I went to Yale. Billy Beane: What'd you study? Peter Brand: Economics. I studied economics. Billy Beane: Yale, economics, and baseball...
95% of economics is common sense
There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.
For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.
We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.
Great opportunities can be and have been created during tough economic times.
I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.
The cost of infrastructure development to host a mega-event can be offset against economic growth over future decades.
America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.
Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.
Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.
Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
I will be the government of increasing economic growth and creating jobs. Take it from me that that's the main issue.
Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.
Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.
If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.
