“However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.” ThinkingValuesReligiousEconomicMajorsEconomicsRootsFundamentalsMereDeeperOppositionEcology Book:Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker Source: Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker
“Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most evident following an accident, is more intense but is relatively short lived.” MoralMajorsEconomicsSafetyFollowingAccidentsIntenseAviationCompellingEvidentIncentivesShort Lived Author:Jerome F. Lederer
“I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a very major role in producing the Great Depression.” ThinkingRolesMajorsEconomicsUniversalProfessionAgreementQuantityDeclineGreat Depression Author:Milton Friedman
“The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a Viennes economist: Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992). A man of exceptionally broad knowledge and profound insight into the operation of complex systems, Hayek applied such insight with remarkable success to economics (Nobel Prize, 1974), sociology, political science, jurisprudence, evolutionary theory, psychology, and brain science (Hayek, 1952).” MenFirstsPoliticalMemoriesBrainPsychologyTheoryComputerMajorsEconomicsScientistProfoundComplexesInsightScalesOperationsRemarkablePrizeBroadsEconomistSociologyPolitical ScienceNobelNobel PrizeComplex SystemsHayekJurisprudenceBrain ScienceVon Hayek Author:Joaquin Fuster
“My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.” RealizingHappenedComputerMajorsPercentEconomicsComputer ScienceUndergraduate Author:Melinda Gates
“The Democrats have been there for working people in our country. That's who we are, trickle-down vs. middle-class economics. That's the major difference between the parties.” PeopleHas BeensCountryDifferencesPartyClassMiddleMajorsEconomicsDemocratOur CountryWho We AreMiddle ClassTrickle Down Author:Nancy Pelosi
“If you don't donate to Obama and you're a major corporation like Big Oil, then they're gonna blame you for climate change, destroying the planet and they're gonna get everybody turned against you and hating your guts and so forth, and that's how they operate. That's not how Trump operates. That's not how Mike Pence operates. They understand the simple mathematics of economics.” IfsBigsHateSimplePlanetsTrumpMajorsEconomicsMathematicsBlameClimateClimate ChangeOilCorporationsGutsDestroyingHate YouMikeDonateBig Oil Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As long as women and the "feminine" such as caring and caregiving are devalued, we cannot realistically expect more caring economic policies. Young people have a major role to play in creating a caring economics.” PeopleLongPlayYoungRolesEconomicPolicyCreatingMajorsEconomicsCaringFeminineEconomic PolicyCaregiving Author:Riane Eisler
“I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.” YearsHoursDecisionResponsibilityPolicyMajorsEconomicsSevenCoffeeDepartmentChairsSeven YearsDoughnutPrincetonBagels Author:Ben Bernanke
“In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense that American education can be deemed a success.” Has BeensLibertyEconomicPoliticianMajorsEconomicsIllPartnersIgnorantEducatedFaithfulEstablishmentAmerican Education Author:Walter E. Williams
“There are only two (major) parties today: The Stupid Party and The Evil Party. Once in a while the two parties get together to do something that is both stupid and evil, and that's called Bipartisanship.” TwoGovernmentTodayTogetherPoliticalEvilPartyLibertyEconomicStupidMajorsEconomicsGet TogetherBipartisanshipTwo Party System Author:Thomas Woods
“We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.” TodaySocialCommunityEconomyEconomicMajorsEconomicsOrganizationCharityDriversPhilanthropyVolunteerProvidersDistributorsService ProvidersCoordinator Author:Julia Gillard
“I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.” HomeCollegeMajorsClothesEconomicsHome Economics Author:Phillip Lim
“But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.” BeliefStudySeriousExpressionMajorsEconomicsReplacedMy ThoughtsTheorems Author:James Meade