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. – Earl Blumenauer
It doesn’t take a degree in economics to know that something is wrong when it takes $30 or $40 to fill up the gas tank. – Evan Bayh
Economists create their own worlds. We’re like little gods with our artificial economics, wanting to see what happens. – Edward C. Prescott
While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile – what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries – seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray. – Elliott Abrams
Getting a traditional pharmaceutical to the market can cost a billion dollars or more. Newer, more tailored and targeted drugs called biologics are even more complex and expensive. Simple economics dictates that companies and venture funds will invest more in products that can generate a sufficient return. – David Mixner
Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have – it’s usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness. – Emily Oster
I think economics – and this is what I’ve tried to impart – has a tremendous amount of human interest in it. – Paul Samuelson
Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories. – Edmund Phelps
I’m a Ph.D. in economics, and so you analyze every situation uniquely because every international situation is unique. – Dave Brat
I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say. – Clive Granger
I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis – ‘Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?’ – was on savings. – Dambisa Moyo
Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It’s how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power. – Nick Hanauer
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system. – David Korten
We plutocrats need to get this trickle-down economics thing behind us: this idea that the better we do, the better everyone else will do. It’s not true. How could it be? I earn 1,000 times the median wage, but I do not buy 1,000 times as much stuff, do I? – Nick Hanauer
There’s nothing in Keynesian economics that would allow you to solve stagflation. But there’s nothing in neoclassical economics that would allow you to solve stagflation, either. – Paul Samuelson
I didn’t wake up one day and say, you know, ‘Supply-side economics doesn’t make sense.’ – David Brock
You can’t just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on. – Daniel Pipes
Middle-out economics rejects the old misconception that an economy is a perfectly efficient, mechanistic system and embraces the much more accurate idea of an economy as a complex ecosystem made up of real people who are dependent on one another. – Nick Hanauer
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it’s not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa. – Charles C. Mann
Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It’s corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity. – Paul Ryan
I’ve felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out. – Mark Skousen
A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research. – Edmund Phelps
Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market. – Edmund Phelps