“I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out.” NeedsFeltWatchesStreetsTaughtWallPureEconomicsInvestingEconomistPayroll Author:Mark Skousen
“My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.” KindSocialTaughtGrewConversationGrew UpEconomicsTablesFolksDinnerEconomistSocial ScienceDinner Table Author:Seth Gordon
“Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of prosperity. GNP is improved by increases in questionable activities such as consumption of cigarettes and the production of weapons. Moreover, a substantial increase in car accidents will favorably affect GNP because more funerals, hospital visits, car repairs, and new car purchases will result.” ProblemSchoolCoursesResultsBusinessCarTaughtActivityWeaponsEconomicsIncreaseUniversityProsperityProductionsAccidentsHospitalsFuneralCigaretteConsumptionQuestionableCar AccidentNew CarYardsticks Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“Without evading the grimness of life in much of modern Africa, one can recognize that this continent is not yet sick as our continent is sick. Most Africans remain plugged into reality. In contrast we have become disconnected from it, reduced to compulsively consuming units, taught to worship 'economic growth' - the ultimate unreality in a finite world.” WorldRealityGrowthEconomicModernTaughtWorshipEconomicsUltimateSickContrastContinentsUnitsFiniteEconomic GrowthConsumingDisconnectedUnreality Author:Dervla Murphy
“The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.” MenMindLongSelfGovernmentAgeSufferingBornVirtueProgressTeachingConditionsTaughtOughtExerciseLimitsCapacityEconomicsPrejudiceLimitationRulersUnlimitedDominionReactionariesUnlimited Power Author:Walter Lippmann
“Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.” PhilosophyCoursesOpportunityStudyTaughtEconomicsArchitectureProfessorsKnowledgeableRussian History Author:Stanley B. Prusiner
“I think that local school districts - not the federal government - should make the decision about how they teach science, biology, economics. I want my kids to be taught about evolution; I want my kids to be taught about other theories.” ThinkingWantShouldGovernmentKidsSchoolScienceReligionPoliticsChurchDecisionEducationFamilyTeachPolicyTaughtTheoryEvolutionEconomicsConstitutionSeparationLocalsIdeologyBiologyFederal GovernmentChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateSchool Districts Author:Bobby Jindal
“History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.” LongQualityLibertyMoralTaughtEconomicsFoundationTaught Us Author:Margaret Thatcher
“My mother and my father taught me to look at the actual problem, not the face of it, not the veneer of it. So for me, I was never - I was impressed that it - racially, I was impressed, right, but now in America it's about economics, and it's been about economics, and honestly, everything's been about economics since I don't want to say the beginning of time, but it's been about economics for a long while.” WantLooksLongProblemAmericaFacesMotherFatherTaughtEconomicsHonestlyImpressedVeneer Author:Lupe Fiasco
“If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each acting as an individual to maximize his own wealth in the market.” IfsHumansPoliticalCoursesIndividualWealthActingTaughtEconomicsRationalSupposed To BePolitical Science Author:Noam Chomsky
“And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.” KnowsHumorHappensEyeFunnyCoursesMorningTaughtEconomicsFaultsClockAbsolutely NothingBloodshot Eyes Author:Lewis Black
“Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.” MenHas BeensTogetherLibertyVirtueSocietyEconomicTaughtHe ManEconomicsAgreeCurrentsCreatorInsaneInsanitySwimDisagreeStand AloneFountainhead Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff - watch out!” PeopleNeedsShouldCareStuffAbilityLibertyWatchesEconomicTaughtPromiseEqualEconomicsShould HaveEqualityMedicalSocialismCommunismDecentHousingAffordableSeductiveTaught UsMedical CareCommunism And Socialism Author:Walter E. Williams
“Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).” CoursesFailingTaughtEconomicsTitlesDescription Author:F. M. Scherer
“The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.” PeopleGovernmentEconomyTaughtEconomicsCongressSpendingReservesCautionFederal Reserve Author:Ron Paul
“Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia; textbook economics does not work in my context.” DoeCountryInspirationMotivationEconomyTaughtDrugEconomicsUniversityUselessAfghanistanElitesMafiaTextbooks Author:Ashraf Ghani
“Economics, as it is often taught today, portrays us as homo economicus-someone who doesn't vote in presidential elections, doesn't return lost wallets, and doesn't leave tips when dining out of town. Julie Nelson reminds us that most people aren't really like that. She helps point the way to a richer, more descriptive way of thinking about economic life.” PeopleThinkingWayHelpingTodayLostEconomicTaughtReturnEconomicsVoteTownsElectionPresidentialWay Of ThinkingDiningNelsonWalletsPresidential ElectionDining Out Author:Robert H. Frank