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  • You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk. -- James Surowiecki
  • The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history. -- Noam Chomsky
  • The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history. -- Lawrence Summers
  • Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history. -- Charles P. Kindleberger
  • The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few. -- David Cameron
  • All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out. -- A. J. P. Taylor
  • Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s. -- Barry Eichengreen
  • Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history. -- Christina Stead
  • The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth is that the scale and magnitude of the problem is larger than their ability to respond - and it terrifies them. -- Hugh Hendry
  • We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution. -- Will Durant
  • Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important. -- Manmohan Singh
  • Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one. -- Peter Drucker
  • History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history. -- Gavin Newsom
  • History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss. -- Pete Sessions
  • Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. -- Paul Ryan
  • I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history. -- Erskine Bowles
  • The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous. -- Robert Hormats
  • The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis. -- Ben Bernanke
  • What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. -- Deepak Chopra
  • After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history. -- Condoleezza Rice
  • By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future. -- Paul Ryan
  • A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system. -- Janet Yellen
  • In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals. -- Nick Clooney
  • Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are. -- Antony Beevor
  • Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces. -- Samuel E. Morison
  • At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textbooks as 'panics' - when adverse conditions affecting the financial and economic sectors of the country have caused individuals to hoard more than they need. -- Jo Bonner
  • This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that. -- John Perkins
  • The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality. -- Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh
  • The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free. -- B. Joseph Pine II
  • The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. -- Fidel Castro
  • It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession. -- Ha-Joon Chang
  • During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history -- Gavin Newsom
  • If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference. -- David Landes
  • There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks. -- Joan Robinson
  • Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things. -- John Clapham
  • History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse. -- Eric Alterman
  • Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals. -- Walter Lippmann
  • The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress. -- Rudy Giuliani
  • Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process. -- Kevin Bales
  • In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War. -- G. Edward Griffin
  • Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history. -- Christiana Figueres
  • History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust. -- Rachel Nichols
  • By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing. -- Jesmyn Ward
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