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Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is. -- Rush Limbaugh
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes. -- Nikita Khrushchev
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
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition. -- Dale T. Mortensen
Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all. -- Julian Baggini
I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics. -- Vernon L. Smith
My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics. -- James Meade
I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis. -- James Tobin
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics. -- Norman Foster
The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say. -- George Lucas
Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject. -- John Lanchester
This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics. -- Paul Krugman
Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running. -- Ben Bernanke
Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study. -- John Kenneth Galbraith

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