Economic theory · Skopia

Quotes

7

Economic literature

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

1924

★ 6.9

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Benjamin Franklin

The Annual Register, Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1779 · 1780

★ 3.9

Economic literature

All systems, either of preference or of restraint, therefore, being thus completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men.

The Wealth of Nations · 1776

★ 3.8

Essay · Economic literature

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.

1822

★ 3.7

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Books

3

The Worldly Philosophers

Robert Heilbroner

1953★ 6.6

The Affluent Society

John Kenneth Galbraith

1958★ 6.3

The Managerial Revolution

1941★ 5.8