Economist Quotes

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.
My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.
My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.
My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use.
My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.
Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.
Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place.
Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.
For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.
Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France.
I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.
I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.
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