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- Nov 07, 2020
Economics Quotes
Most Famous Economics Quotes of All Time!
These Business quotes note how a firm's reputation can outlast even brilliant leadership when the underlying economics are weak. Others point to digital-era shifts, where scale and margins now matter more than simple revenue.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Ph.D. in economics, and so you analyze every situation uniquely because every international situation is unique.
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.
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I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say.
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Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
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Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics.
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Economics profession, they've been - they've been confident in various formulas, but economics is not physics. The same formula that works in one decade doesn't work in the next. Economics is a difficult subject.
A few thinkers admit their own economics writing began as an abstract digression, only later revealing basic truths about markets missed by the wider literature, a theme People quotes revisit often.