- 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
Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way.
- Nov 07, 2020
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
- Economists
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- Nov 07, 2020
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contract things are kind of tough to come up with, especially with both sides and kind of how the economics and all those things work.
- Nov 07, 2020
I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department of Economics, I was drawn to the field of competition and strategy because it tackles perhaps the most basic question in both business management and industrial economics: What determines corporate performance?
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- Nov 07, 2020
The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry prefers to tease its myriad processed offerings from a tiny group of plant species, corn and soybeans chief among them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Home economics - kids in school used to be taught how to shop, how to cook from scratch, how to be in control of their diets. Doesn't happen anymore.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One reason that we eat processed foods is the decline of home economics. Restarting home economics classes is one of the key things we could do to get this issue moving.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be clear, no one is saying there weren't any legitimate economic grievances in Trumpland, nor is anyone claiming that the economy played no role whatsoever. The point, however, is that it wasn't the major motivating factor for most Trump voters - or, at least, that's what we learn when we bother to study those voters. Race trumped economics.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monetary policy is one of the most difficult topics in economics. But also, I believe, a topic of absolutely crucial importance for our prosperity.
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.