#economics

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#growth #economics

Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom. ↗

— John Charles Chasteen

#freedom #greed #freedom

Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred! ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#money

This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics. ↗

— William Vickrey

#economics #into #paper

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

I've always been interested in the economics of reproduction, who gets what they want when it comes to childbearing and how these days, money is a tremendous advantage. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#always #been #comes #days #economics

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#deeper #ecology #economics #fundamental #held

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#close #economics #kin #religion #root

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. ↗

— James Hillman

#class #economics #gender #i #prejudices

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics. ↗

— James Hillman

#economics #god #i #i think #miserable