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• Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.

  Jim Hunt

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  Tags in Economics, Courses

• While the invisible hand looks after the private sector, the invisible foot kicks the public sector to pieces.

  Herman E. Daly

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  The top 1% owns 42% of the nation’s wealth. This unfairness is not only morally reprehensible, it is bad economics.

  Bernie Sanders

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  Tags in Economics, Morally

• Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

  Jonathan Haidt

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  Tags in Issues, Economics

• Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

  Charles Edison

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Often, Economics

• Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.

  Peer Steinbrück

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Policy, Economics

• The fundamental flaw in Social Security and Medicare is that they violate the ‘welfare principle’ in economics. The welfare principle forms the fundamental basis of all charitable work in churches and other private organizations: assist those who need help, and equally important, don’t assist individuals who can take care of themselves.

  Mark Skousen

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  Tags in Economics, Charitable

• 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

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  Tags in Economics, Investing

• Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Topics in Inspirational, Politics, Religion

  Tags in Economics

• While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it’s hard. Invest in the spirit.

  Jonathan Sacks

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  Tags in Executive, Economics

• Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

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  Tags in Economics, Humour

• I didn’t wake up one day and say, you know, ‘Supply-side economics doesn’t make sense.’

  David Brock

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  Tags in Economics

• Bin Laden comes out of a business background – he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

  Peter L. Bergen

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Economics

• I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

  Bob Hawke

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  Tags in Government, Economics

• The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don’t.

  Francis Thomas Vincent Jr.

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Economics, Problem

• Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

   

  P. J. O'Rourke

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  Tags in Economics

• I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium.

  Gerard Debreu

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  Tags in Economics, Equilibrium, Lifetime

• However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.

  Gerard Arpey

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Economics

• Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear.

  Gerard Arpey

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Economics, Improvement

• I’d call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I’m afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Economics, Version