“We Americans commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas is Jesus' birthday. Now, I don't know Jesus, but from what I read he was the least materialistic person who ever walked the earth. No bling on Jesus. He kept a low profile and we turned his birthday into the most commercial day of the year. In fact we have a whole Jesus birthday season. And then at the end of it, we have the nerve to have an economist come on TV and say what a horrible Jesus birthday season we had.” KnowsYearsLooksPersonsEndsWholeFactsEarthJesusTvsLowsSeasonsHorribleNervesEconomistProfileMaterialisticDays Of The YearBlingMaterialistic Person Author:Chris Rock
“As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is, so economists have long been mathematicians without being aware of the fact.” LongIdeasFactsKnowingProseMathematicianEconomist Book:The Theory of Political Economy Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics is to fling aside,once and forever, the mazy and preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school. Our English economists have been living in a fool's paradise. The truth is with the French school, and the sooner we recognize the fact, the better it will be for all the world, except perhaps the few writers who are far too committed to the old erroneous doctrines to allow for renunciation.” WorldHas BeensFactsSchoolForeverFoolTruth IsEconomicsCommittedDoctrineConclusionAssumptionParadiseEconomistRenunciationFling Book:Political Economy Source: Political Economy