We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
Finance Quotes
Thomas Paine has the most entries, followed by Paul Krugman, Bernie Sanders, David Graeber and Paul Samuelson. The sourced lines are scattered. Joseph Conrad, in Victory (1915), calls finance a mysterious world in which, incredible as it may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation. John Stuart Mill’s Principles of Political Economy (1848) is here for a passage on how the state should treat the criminal poor. Asimov’s 1950 novel is the source of the line that economics is on the side of humanity now.
The one flagged entry is “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable,” credited to John Kenneth Galbraith and marked misattributed.
Economy, in the estimation of common minds, often means the absence of all taste and comfort.
He will always be a slave, who does not know how to live upon a little.
Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse.
A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!
There must be a guarantee that people receive what they need in order to live a dignified life.