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“What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse”

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John Hampden (1595-1643) was an English politician who played a significant role in the English Civil War. He was a prominent member of the Parliament and a leader of the opposition against King Charles I. more

“The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science.”

Ifs Long Running Winning Force Trouble Week Advantage Economics Abuse Fundamentals Prize Conspiracy Discovering Long Runs Nobel Lottery Nobel Prize Physical Force Manipulator

Author:Richard Dawkins

“Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed”

Ifs Self Problem Form Interest Effort Economic Economics Seeking Subtle Deceit Behaviour Disguise Self Interest Mislead Involving Organisation Guile Opportunism

Author:Oliver E. Williamson

“It is easy to be compassionate with other people's money”

People Easy Economics Compassionate

Author:John Atherton

“If it's free put me down for two please”

Ifs Two Please Economics

Author:Rolf Harris

“It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return for manufactured commodities, import corn even if it can be grown with less labour than in the country from which it is imported”

Ifs Heart May Country Matter Principles Economic Return Advantage Economics Labour Commodity Corn Imports Comparative Advantage

Author:David Ricardo

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