Applied Economics Quotes

#1. I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics.

Paul Samuelson

#2. My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation.

Robert C. Merton

#3. There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#4. To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

William James

#5. I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

Lauren Bacall

#6. The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.

Ramakrishna

#7. The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.

Benjamin Graham

#8. O that I were a man, or that I had power

To execute my apprehended wishes!

I would whip some with scorpions.

John Webster

#9. Corruption is not bribery but bribery is corruption.

Auliq Ice

#10. When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear.

Walt Whitman

#11. Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

Millicent Fenwick

#12. A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

Edmund Phelps

#13. I always root for the black man, like penance for something I had not part in creating.

J.M. August

#14. Every family's its own trip to China.

Barbara Kingsolver