#economics

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future". ↗

— Henry M. Wriston

#dreams #economics #education #jobs #occupations

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. ↗

— James Thurber

#depend #economics #farce #funnier #his

At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory. ↗

— James Tobin

#elaborate #foundations #logic #monetary #more

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#bypass #diabetes #economics #epidemic #gastric

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#brilliance #business #economics #intact #management

But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level. ↗

— Evan Davis

#community #economics #either #experience #forum

I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better. ↗

— Evan Davis

#better #better place #boring #economics #fairly

Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology. ↗

— Evan Davis

#called #cusp #economics #hot #human

I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#big #economics #had #i #just

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable. ↗

— Charles Edison

#inseparable #often #personalities #politics