Quotes About Economic Assumptions

#1. When dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

Twyla Tharp

#2. Character is what we do when no one else is watching"

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#3. My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.

Junot Diaz

#4. Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

Gautam Adani

#5. It should be particularly stressed that the fantastic makes no sense in an out-and-out strange world. To imagine the fantastic in it is even impossible. In a world full of marvels the extraordinary loses its power.

Roger Caillois

#6. Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

Ha-Joon Chang

#7. I love that our engineers are first and foremost 'Instagram' users.

Mike Krieger

#8. I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark.

Leslye Walton

#9. banging saucepans to ring in the new year?

Colum McCann

#10. Nothing is worth having if it isn't worth showing off ...

Thabang Gideon Magaola

#11. Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions.

Wassily Leontief

#12. We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

Ann Richards

#13. Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private enterprise and maximum economic growth.

Henry Hazlitt

#14. If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.

Charlotte Bunch