The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.
Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population and to anger at political subordination and humiliation.
Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.
Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of Western commercial society. The debate is not about art but about culture and economics.
Your money myth affects your gain and luck. In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.
The escalator doesn’t work, and you’d think they’d still be used as stairs, but in this economic depression, even the stairs are unemployed.
One of my hobbies is reading finance and economic books—at the strip club, where I “invest” my money.
America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured into the country - most of them poor. They believe they have a shot to improve themselves economica...
Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody...
The Reagan years showed us that expanding economic freedom should be the North Star - the guiding light - of U.S. policy, because it is the best way to achieve sustained and broad-based prosperity for all.
Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.
It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.
While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.
The economic costs, the financial costs, the job losses, the income losses, the fiscal costs of bailing out financial system are becoming larger and larger.
I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.
Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.