Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.
Larry Summers

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.
Herbert Read

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
James Thurber

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
Henry Hazlitt

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.
George Stigler

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.
Lawrence R. Klein

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
Fay Vincent

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas Sowell

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
Camille Paglia

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.
Jim Fowler

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.
David Korten

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
Harold H. Greene

The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me.
Armand Assante

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.
Joseph E. Stiglitz

This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.
William Vickrey

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
Ruth Hubbard

To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.
Polykarp Kusch

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.
Robert Duvall

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.
August Bebel