#economics

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR? Albert wanted to argue. He wanted to say, Really? In that case, how come so many of the rich buggers is bastards? And being poor don't mean being naughty, neither. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#economics #money #morality #society #death

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became banal. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#banking #banks #capitalism #economics #leguin

The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me. ↗

— Armand Assante

#economics #industry #me #screwed #up

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

— David Brock

#economics #i #know #make #one day

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 started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes. ↗

— Phillip Lim

#clothes #college #economics #finally #home

Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics. ↗

— David Milne

#analog #company #economics #enjoys #first

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. ↗

— Marty Allen

#best #best time #buy #economics #last

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

#dedication #economic #economics #equilibrium #general

Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#did #does #down #economics #else