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Gary Becker, a University of Chicago economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1992, has noted (borrowing from George Bernard Shaw) that “economy is the art of making the most of life.”
Charles Wheelan • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
—LUDWIG VON MISES, AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST AND AUTHOR OF HUMAN ACTION
Josh Kaufman • The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume
It would be far better, if that were the choice—which it isn’t—to have maximum production with part of the population supported in idleness by undisguised relief than to provide “full employment”
Henry Hazlitt • Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
Maynard Keynes, and Mr H. G. Wells,
Kazuo Ishiguro • The Remains of the Day (FF Classics)
A new low came on July 10. At its bond auction that day, the government was forced to offer record yields of 14 percent to attract buyers of three-month bills. Paying such high rates to borrow for such a short period was the death knell of many a debtor nation. Even Argentine banks, which had been pressured by the government in recent months to buy
... See morePaul Blustein • And the Money Kept Rolling in (And Out): Wall Street, the Imf, And the Bankrupting of Argentina: Wall Street, the IMF and the Bankrupting of Argentina
If economic activity is a language, trade a speech act, and prices the compressed signal of syntax, then entrepreneurship bears a remarkable resemblance to authorship.