Quotes about Economics

You were brought up to work--not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut--go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him-- whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.

You were brought up to work — not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut — go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him — whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.

So long as a society remains economically stratified, the challenge of reconciling lifelong monogamy with human nature will be large. Incentives and disincentives (moral and/or legal) may be necessary.

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

The poor are poor because the rich are rich.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

good. A society that gets marriage wrong will not remain free for long: the family is the training ground for the virtues that make free societies possible. Consider especially the necessity of trust in economic relationships.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.