“I'm very lucky to be able to work in print and radio. I'm very lucky to be able to work at a time when finance and economics are really important. And the number of people who tell finance and economic stories in a kind of accessible storytelling way, there's much more demand than there is supply.” PeopleWayKindImportantStoriesAbleNumbersEconomicLuckyDemandEconomicsRadioStorytellingFinancePrint Author:David Plotz
“Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a social science of ethics and politics: what was intended to be a mere porch to ethics is either the whole house or nothing at all. In so laying down its life welfare economics may be able to contribute some of its insights and analytical methods to a much broader evaluative analysis of the whole social process.” MayWholeSeemsAbleHouseSocialProcessEthicsEconomicsMethodMereInsightWelfareAnalysisExpansionVergeSocial SciencePorchLaying Down Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price. We buy very few securities, so we look at it as "focused" investing.” PeopleTryingLooksRunningAbleHonestSecurityEconomicsInvestingFocusedExcellentDecentDiversification Author:Warren Buffett
“We try to buy businesses with good-to-superb underlying economics run by honest and able people and buy them at sensible prices. That's all I'm trying to do.” PeopleTryingRunningAbleHonestEconomicsSensibleSuperb Author:Warren Buffett
“Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large.” AbleCompanyWindEconomicsAll TimeRequirementsAvailability Author:Bill Gates
“I'm constantly being courted by labels and their backing. Obviously the market is there when you talk about the economics and the numbers, but it's hard to give up the freedom of being able to do whatever you want.” WantGivingHardAbleNumbersGiving UpEconomicsLabelsDo Whatever You Want Author:Brian McKnight
“I see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic socialism over a capitalist system, because any approach... or participatory economics, which is another great model that people like Michael Albert are putting out there... any system that encourages us to think about interdependency, and to be able to use the world's resources in a wiser way, for the good of the whole, would be better for the world than capitalism.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWholeUseWould BeAbleTermSupportApproachModelsCapitalismResourcesEconomicsDemocraticSocialismCapitalistWiserDemocratic Socialism Author:Bell Hooks
“Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so...” ProblemRealityAbleLevelsAchieveIgnoranceExpectationsEconomicsClarityUncertaintyRegulationRegulatorsUnrealistic Expectations Author:Alan Greenspan
“We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.” IfsKnowsMenWholeShowsWould BeAbleValuesIndividualLibertyMoralKnow HowConditionsParticularSourceOffersEconomicsAppreciateIndividualityFree ManFree SocietyMoral Values Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish. The believability of the conclusion depends not only on the fact that it was reached but on how hard the theorist had to tweak the model to get there.” ThinkingHardFactsAbleOrderWishDependsModelsEconomicsConclusionAssumptionAppreciatedTheoristsTweakBelievability Author:David M. Kreps
“Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals will be more likely to survive and reproduce so their pattern of behaviour and thought will become dominant” WorldAbleIndividualDrawsEconomicsPatternsConclusionBehaviourDominant Author:Stephen Hawking
“Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them” MenBelieveImportantAblePrinciplesAdvantageEconomicsIntelligentIntelligent ManComparative Advantage Author:Paul Samuelson
“It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able to operate without the need for assistance apart from social grants.” NeedsGovernmentAbleSocialLinesPolicyIndustryEconomicsGrantsPhasesCoalAssistanceSubsidiesGovernment Policy Author:Tony Benn
“Home-making today should have a background of scientific training because only in this way can real efficiency be achieved. The average girl wants to be able to keep her house with the least possible strain, and in order to do this she must have good training. This can best be achieved by taking a good course in home economics.” WayWantShouldRealHomeTodayAbleOrderGirlCoursesHouseTrainingEconomicsShould HaveAverageBackgroundsEfficiencyStrainHome EconomicsAverage Girl Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease.” PeopleIfsWritingAblePassionSimpleNumbersEconomicsRewardsNovelistsFewerDeclineDecrease Author:Scott Turow