“...it is business that can exercise the fastest degree of change by seeing the opportunity rather than the threat” OpportunityBusinessSeeingExerciseDegreesEconomicsManagementThreat Author:Chris Huhne
“Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in their bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles.” PeopleMindLooksStatesBodyGovernmentAmericaFormDifferencesDemocracyIssuesEconomicHealthyDegreesSolutionsEconomicsDollarsDeterminedRussiaCommunistTotalitarianismForms Of GovernmentSettlementHealthy And Happy Book:Another Roadside Attraction Source: Another Roadside Attraction
“I was very interested in politics in college and was heading to be a lawyer. I have a degree in economics and I was interested in it. I hadn't really gotten super serious about it and I'd done a lot of student politics in high school. I really think it would be interesting and fun and challenging to go into politics.” ThinkingDoneWould BeSchoolFunChallengesInterestingStudentsCollegeSeriousDegreesHigh SchoolEconomicsLawyerHeadings Author:Jay Roach
“I have been interested in visual arts since high school and, after realising that I had absolutely no interest in the economics degree I had undertaken at ANU, I started a BFA in Sydney which I completed at VCA in Melbourne.” Has BeensArtSchoolInterestDegreesHigh SchoolEconomicsVisualsRealisingSydneyVisual ArtMelbourne Author:Patricia Piccinini
“I was always interested in the larger picture, I was pre-law in college, and had a degree in economics. I was very interested in the big question 'how then shall we live?,' how do we organize as a civilization when we are so different, and often don't get along, yet we know at some point we have to unite for the common good? I actually really care about those issues, and I'm driven to understand how it works.” KnowsDifferentBigsCareLawCommonIssuesCollegeCivilizationDegreesEconomicsDrivenOrganizeCommon GoodBig Questions Author:Jay Roach
“I do understand the free market, having my economics degree, and if someone on the right had some good ideas, I'm not so dogmatic that I wouldn't listen to them.” IfsIdeasDegreesEconomicsGood IdeasFree MarketDogmatic Author:Jay Roach
“I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.” WantReasonHelpingKidsDegreesAreasEconomicsMinistryMinorsUrbanSociologyUnderprivilegedUrban Areas Author:Jeremy Lin
“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.” PoliticsFreedomDegreesEconomicsEqualityFreedom And Equality Author:Milton Friedman
“Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation” IndividualSocialEconomicActivityDegreesEconomicsOperationsOrganisation Author:Francis Fukuyama
“The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties” IfsStatesCertainCompanyEconomicFashionDegreesCapitalismEconomicsDifficultyMovedContraryAdaptedAdministrativeEconomic FreedomQuirksFrench Fashion Book:Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce Source: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce
“Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It should be good for the wealth of the nation, and that is when it acts as little as possible upon the labor that produces it and when it consumes as little as possible. It should be good for the public security, and that is when it protects as much as possible, provided that the protection does not cost more than it brings in.... It is in losing their powers of action that governments improve. Each time that the governed gain space there is progress.” ShouldLittlesDoePhilosophyGovernmentActionPoliticalNationsWealthSpaceLibertyProgressSecurityProduceCostProtectDegreesLosingGainsEconomicsLaborProtectionBe Good Author:Augustin Thierry
“I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.” IfsInspirationalGivingTryingFunnyActingRegretDegreesEconomicsAcceptedGraduationBusinessman Author:Peter Gallagher
“At its heart, this book touches on a mystery of economics: what exactly is happening in our world, and why does it often work so well? As the authors show, apparently messy systems - such as untidy desks - actually exhibit a high degree of order: the piles of paper are close to hand, and the most important documents tend to make their way to the top while un-needed ones sink to the bottom. If the mess works, why mess with it?” IfsWorldWayWellsHeartDoeImportantBookShowsHandsAmericaOrderMysteryModernNeededDegreesPaperHappeningsEconomicsBottomMessOur WorldDesksDocumentsModern WorldMessyExhibitsWhy MeExactly Is Author:Nicholas Blincoe