This collection holds 492 economics quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Tim Harford, Martin Farquhar Tupper and Adam Smith.

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Economics spreads happiness.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

Every man lives by exchanging.

Supply creates its own demand.

Software engineering economics.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

Economics is not brain surgery.

Men will not always die quietly.

Good economics is good politics.

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Economics is not a morality play.

Economics is not an exact science.

Science advances funeral by funeral

No one is entertained by economics.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

Economics is a form of brain damage.

I am not against a little inflation.

There is no business on a dead planet

We have one asset, and that's people.

Moore's law is really about economics.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Good environmentalism is good economics

If it's free put me down for two please

Economics is on the side of humanity now.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

I don't think you can spend yourself rich.

The perennial gale of creative destruction

The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

owning capital is not a productive activity.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

When men are employed they are best contented.

Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.

If something cannot go on for ever, it will stop

Innovations until now conceived by no one at all

Economics and ethics are not mutually exclusive.

You alleviate poverty by trickle-down economics.

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

Trickle down economics creates a nation of peons.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

I have never read it. You should not waste your time.

Economics is a social science, not a physical science.

Politics is a continuation of economics by other means

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

Economics is too important to leave to the economists.

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