"While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make."
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"The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange ."
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"Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse."
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"I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day."
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"The truth is never pure and rarely simple."
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"I got politics and economics moving and then others took over."
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"Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology."
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""Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool.""
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"Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor."
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"Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful."
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"Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul."
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"I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family."
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"My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time."
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"The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff."
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"When men are employed they are best contented."
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"My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics."
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"So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it."
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"No one should have to get a PhD in economics to survive in this economy."
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"Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back"
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"When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact."
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