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“Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.”

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Author:Emily Oster

“The technologies for the alternative energy sources exists today. The economics are compelling. The public health is compelling. Why would we maintain a focus on a 17th-century technology, when there are 21st-century alternatives that are both necessary and available? And the answer is the subversion of democracy.”

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Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“I would love to see a debate on economics between Trump and Obama. Mr. 'Scholar,' Mr. Faculty Lounge Extraordinaire versus Mr. Real World Builder. I would love to see that. Obama wouldn't even get out his first sentence by the time Trump had given ten answers.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”

“An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.”

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Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be wrong, but all of which ultimately point to the right answer. Now Keynes, in 'The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,' set forth a hypothesis which was a beautiful one, and it really altered the shape of economics. But it turned out that it was a wrong hypothesis. That doesn't mean that he wasn't a great man!”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.”

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Author:George Stigler

“The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.”

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Author:Joan Robinson

“The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died”

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Author:Daniel Dennett

“I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain why they are good, the one based on perfect competition and Pareto optimality, is becoming untenable. Something much more interesting and more complicated is going on here”

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Author:Paul Romer

“The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist. Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.”

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Author:John Bates Clark

“...how engaged are your employees right now? You may consider such a question impossible to answer, but the truth is, you need to know this if you want a more profitable, ethical organization, as everyone must share the same values to make the changes genuine”

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Author:Jim Craig

“Business as usual is dead. Green growth is the answer to both our climate and economic problems”

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Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.”

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Author:Edgar Fiedler

“As I talk about strengths and weaknesses in academic economics, one interesting fact you are entitled to know is that I never took a course in economics. And with this striking lack of credentials, you may wonder why I have the chutzpah to be up here giving this talk. The answer is I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it.”

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Author:Charlie Munger