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“The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts .... He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher鈥攊n some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular, in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man's nature or his institutions must be entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood, as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near to earth as a politician.”
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“My simple explanation of why we human beings, the most advanced species on earth, cannot find happiness, is this: as we evolve up the ladder of being, we find three things: the first, that the tension between the range of opposites in our lives and society widens dramatically and often painfully as we evolve; the second, that the better informed and more intelligent we are, the more humble we have to become about our ability to live meaningful lives and to change anything, even ourselves; and consequently, thirdly, that the cost of gaining the simplicity the other side of complexity can rise very steeply if we do not align ourselves and our lives well.”
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“Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.”
― Community: The Structure of Belonging
― Community: The Structure of Belonging

“El estudio de la econom铆a no parece exigir ning煤n don especializado de un orden excepcionalmente superior. 驴No es una disciplina muy f谩cil comparada con las ramas superiores de la filosof铆a o la ciencia pura?. Una disciplina f谩cil de la que muy pocos sobresalen. La paradoja tal vez tenga su explicaci贸n en que el economista experto debe poseer una rara combinaci贸n de dones. Debe ser en cierta medida matem谩tico, historiador, estadista, filosofo. Debe comprender los s铆mbolos y hablar en palabras. Debe contemplar lo particular desde la 贸ptica de lo general y considerar en un mismo razonamiento lo abstracto y lo concreto.
Debe estudiar el presente pensando en el futuro. Ning煤n aspecto de la naturaleza del hombre o de sus instituciones debe quedarse al margen de su consideraci贸n. Debe ser simult谩neamente decidido y desinteresado; tan distante e incorruptible como un artista y, sin embargo a veces tan cerca del suelo como un pol铆tico”
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Debe estudiar el presente pensando en el futuro. Ning煤n aspecto de la naturaleza del hombre o de sus instituciones debe quedarse al margen de su consideraci贸n. Debe ser simult谩neamente decidido y desinteresado; tan distante e incorruptible como un artista y, sin embargo a veces tan cerca del suelo como un pol铆tico”
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“Have you heard the joke about the chemist, physicist and economist who get wrecked on a desert isle, with a huge supply of canned baked beans as their only food? The chemist says that he can start a fire using the neighbouring palm trees, and calculate the temperature at which a can will explode. The physicist says that she can work out the trajectory of each of the baked beans, so that they can be collected and eaten. The economist says "Hang on guys, you're doing it the hard way. Let's assume we have a can opener.”
― Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
― Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

“The distribution of wealth and income is primarily the role and responsibility and freedom of individual people and businesses through their voluntary economic interaction with other people and businesses. And their voluntary exchange of economic value through products, services, and ideas. In this way, social mobility is maximized and a fluid class structure allows for both upward and downward economic movements; this is social justice.”
― Principles of a Permaculture Economy
― Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.”
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“...lo econ贸mico por necesidad toma lugar en el tiempo, es decir, es temporal. Dicho de otro modo, los hechos o datos o acontecimientos que el econom铆sta utiliza para sus fines ocurren todos en el tiempo, en el tiempo hist贸rico. No hay, en efecto, diferencias de naturaleza entre el car谩cter temporal de un evento que sucedi贸 hace veinticuatro horas y uno que sucedi贸 hace dos siglos. Ambos son perfectamente fait accompli. Queda, desde luego, la actitud que suele provocar -en no pocos- el tiempo m谩s contempor谩neo, de discutir los hechos y sus consecuencias como si no estuvieran ya consumados, y s贸lo porque se tiene informaci贸n acerca de las opciones que estaban abiertas y que no se adoptaron.”
― Itinerario por la Econom铆a Pol铆tica
― Itinerario por la Econom铆a Pol铆tica

“Heri kuishi kama maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka, kuliko kusema mbele za watu kwamba pesa haijakupa furaha. Wengi hupata jeuri ya kusema hivyo kutokana na umaskini wa watu wanaowazunguka.”
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“Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.”
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“Economics [...] has the advantage of joining an extremely simple model of human nature with extremely complicated mathematical formulae that non-specialists can rarely understand, much less criticize.”
― Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams
― Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams

“Economics [...] maximizing models are really arguing is that 鈥減eople will always seek to maximize something,鈥� [...] All they really add to analysis is a set of assumptions about human nature. The assumption, most of all, that no one ever does anything primarily out of concern for others; that whatever one does, one is only trying to get something out of it for oneself. In common English, there is a word for this attitude. It鈥檚 called 鈥渃ynicism.鈥� Most of us try to avoid people who take it too much to heart. In economics, apparently, they call it 鈥渟cience.”
― Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams
― Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams

“Ha de decirse que para el cient铆fico, como convicci贸n primigenia e indecible, hay una l铆nea divisoria muy n铆tida entre la realidad del mundo que sucede y acaece con total prescindencia de lo que pueda hacerse o moldearse, y la realidad del mundo que se presta a la acci贸n, al arte o al conjuro. Esto es, hay cosas que se dan u ocurren por s铆 mismas, cosas de naturaleza cabr铆a decir, y cosas que pueden producirse o prevenirse a voluntad. Sin la actitud que envuelve esta convicci贸n, debe afirmarse, no hay lugar para el conocimiento cient铆fico, independientemente de que el destino de ese conocimiento al final sea servirle de fundamento al desarrollo de eficientes t茅cnicas para la acci贸n o la manipulaci贸n.”
― Itinerario por la Econom铆a Pol铆tica
― Itinerario por la Econom铆a Pol铆tica
“亘毓丿 賲賵鬲 丕賱賳亘賷 丌丿賲 鬲賮乇賯 兀亘賳丕亍賴 賱卮毓賵亘 賰孬賷乇丞貙 賵丕賳丨乇賮鬲 毓賳 丕賱賲賳賴噩 丕賱爻賲丕賵賷 丕賱匕賷 賵囟毓賴 丕賱賱賴 賱賴丕貙 廿賲丕 亘丕賱毓氐賷丕賳 賵兀賳 丕賱賳爻賷丕賳貙 賵亘丕賱鬲丕賱賷 兀乇爻賱 丕賱賱賴 賱賴賲 賲賳 賷毓丿 丕賱亘卮乇賷丞 丕賱賷 賲爻丕乇賴丕 丕賱氐丨賷丨貙 賵賰丕賳 丕賱丨丿孬 亘賳亘賵丞 丕丿乇賷爻貙 賮賯丿 賴丕噩乇 賲賳 丕賱毓乇丕賯 丕賱賷 賲氐乇 賵丕鬲禺匕賴丕 丨氐賳丕賸 賱賴 賵賱丿毓賵鬲賴 賮亘賳賶 丕賱賲丿賳 賵賰乇爻 丨賷丕鬲賴 賱賳卮乇 丕賱毓賱賵賲貙 賮賴賳丕 賱賵鬲丨丿孬賳丕 毓賳 賲賳賴噩賴 賮賷 丕賱丨乇亘貙 賵丕賱毓賱賲 亘賴丕 賵鬲噩賴賷夭 丕賱賳丕爻 賱賴丕 賲賳 賲兀賰賱 賲卮乇亘貙 賮賴賳丕 丕爻鬲賵噩亘 兀賳 賷鬲亘毓 賲賳賴噩 兀賵 賷鬲禺匕 賲賳 丕賱賴丿賶 丕賱丕賱賴賷 丕賱亘丿丕賷丞 賮賷 賮賰乇 丕賯鬲氐丕丿賷 兀賵 鬲胤賵賷毓 兀賵丕賲乇 丕賱賱賴 賱賴匕丕 丕賱丕賲乇.
賮賳亘賵丞 丕丿乇賷爻 賴賵 鬲氐賵賷亘 賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 賵鬲乇卮賷丿 賱賲賵丕乇丿賴 賵鬲丨賷賷丿 爻賱賵賰賴 賲賳 丕賱賲賮乇胤 丕賱賲爻乇賮 廿賱賷 丕賱賲乇卮賾丿 丕賱賲賯鬲氐丿 賰賲丕 噩丕亍 賮賷 賯賵賱賴 鬲毓丕賱賶 "賵賲賳賴賲 賲賯鬲氐丿".”
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賮賳亘賵丞 丕丿乇賷爻 賴賵 鬲氐賵賷亘 賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 賵鬲乇卮賷丿 賱賲賵丕乇丿賴 賵鬲丨賷賷丿 爻賱賵賰賴 賲賳 丕賱賲賮乇胤 丕賱賲爻乇賮 廿賱賷 丕賱賲乇卮賾丿 丕賱賲賯鬲氐丿 賰賲丕 噩丕亍 賮賷 賯賵賱賴 鬲毓丕賱賶 "賵賲賳賴賲 賲賯鬲氐丿".”
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“Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.”
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“When an economist attempts to prove that it is "irrational" to vote in national elections (because the effort expended outweighs the likely benefit to the individual voter), they use the term because they do not wish to say "irrational for actors for whom civic participation, political ideals, of the common good are not values in themselves, but who view public affairs only in terms of personal advantage.”
― The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
― The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

“John Law鈥檚 'Money and Trade Considered' is the most influential but least acknowledged work in the history of economics.”
― John Law: The Lauriston Lecture and Collected Writings
― John Law: The Lauriston Lecture and Collected Writings

“John Law left us with a legacy that continues to have a profound impact in the spheres of economics, public policy, finance, and, as a result, the very foundations upon which modern society has been constructed.”
― John Law: The Lauriston Lecture and Collected Writings
― John Law: The Lauriston Lecture and Collected Writings

“John Law was a first rate economist. His 'Money and Trade Considered' was a tremendous academic achievement that has formed the (unacknowledged) basis of many of the advancements in our understanding of the economic environment in which we all live.”
― John Law: The Lauriston Lecture and Collected Writings
― John Law: The Lauriston Lecture and Collected Writings

“The investment in the education of girls may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.”
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“Economists have always recognised that some kind of initial accumulation was necessary for the rise of capitalism. Adam Smith called this 鈥榩revious accumulation鈥�, and claimed that it came about because a few people worked really hard and saved their earnings鈥� an idyllic tale that still gets repeated in economics textbooks. But historians see it as na茂ve. This was no innocent process of saving. It was a process of plunder.”
― Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
― Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
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