“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.” MenWorldEconomicFinancePerceiveDawnExplanationSuperstitionsPrimitiveJungleFinanciersPrimitive ManEconomic History 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.” ProblemPoliticalAbilityClassEconomicTruth IsProfoundScalesMagnitudeEconomic History Author:Hugh Hendry
“The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few.” EconomicEmbraceChaptersEconomic History Author:David Cameron
“Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.” EconomicTaughtProfessionEconomic History 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.” FirstsMadeFactsAmericaFilmSpiritStuffRaceEconomicCenturyMountainIndependentPopsGenderFierceOddsOscars20th CenturyMasterpieceEaglesIntriguingHitchcockMelodramaAgainst All OddsEconomic History Author:Guy Maddin