Best Economic History Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“[The rich] are like the pearl in the oyster: shiny indeed, and produced by the living body of the oyster, but at the same time somewhat extraneous to the organism.”

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Book:As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West

Source: As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West

“In those days the world was not a garden and the people were not idle as they are now. Then on the face of the world there was real wilderness, empty of humanity, and the wilderness that humanity created, the wilderness that it packed with itself and which it called City. People toiled and people idled and the toilers worked for themselves and yet not for themselves and the idle did no work or little work and what they did, did only for themselves; money was all-powerful then and people said they made it work for them but money cannot work, only people and machines can work.”

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Book:Feersum Endjinn

Source: Feersum Endjinn

“Poverty was nature surviving in society; that the limitedness of food and the unlimitedness of men had come to an issue just when the promise of boundless increase of wealth burst in upon us made the irony only the more bitter.”

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Book:The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

Source: The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

“Along the way I kept running across wonderful bits of information about the women - virtually always women - who produced these textiles and about the values that different societies put on the products and their makers. When I talked about my work, people seemed especially eager for these vignettes, stories that told of women's lives thousands of years ago.”

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Book:Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Source: Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

“Most economic histories of the "world" not only omit most extra-European production and exchange (even most of that outside West Europe or even northwest Europe); they neglect the participation of the productive and exchange activities of extra-European countries in the European, not to say world, process of accumulation and development. Moreover, they disregard the part that these productive and exchange relations played in the developing world system.”

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Book:World Accumulation 1492-1789

Source: World Accumulation 1492-1789

“Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.”

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Book:House of All Nations

Source: House of All Nations

“We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth is that the scale and magnitude of the problem is larger than their ability to respond - and it terrifies them.”

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Author:Hugh Hendry

“The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few.”

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Author:David Cameron

“Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.”

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Author:Charles P. Kindleberger

“The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W. Murnau's masterpieces, or that you couldn't see so many of Oscar Micheaux's really intriguing race melodramas, made with fierce independent spirit against all odds in '20s and '30s America. That stuff haunted me. They really did bring to life a sense of 20th Century history: cultural history, pop history, gender politics and race politics, socio economic history, all that stuff. It was bracing and instructive.”

“I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could be told purely in a Marxist construction.”

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Author:Ira Sachs

“The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.”

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Author:Lawrence Summers

“Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.”

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Book:Managing in the Next Society

Source: Managing in the Next Society

“The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.”

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Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.”

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Author:John Clapham

“We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.”

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Book:The Lessons of History

Source: The Lessons of History

“Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is to recognize the trend whose premise is false, ride that trend and step off before it is discredited.”

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Author:George Soros

“Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.”

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Author:Manmohan Singh

“All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.”

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Book:Politicians, Socialism, and Historians

Source: Politicians, Socialism, and Historians

“The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z