Economics Quotes

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.

Imperialism and economics clash as often as honesty and self-interest.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.