Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings.

We might as reasonably dispute whether it is the upper or the under blade of a pair of scissors that cuts a piece of paper, as whether value is governed by utility or cost of production.

Abandon the illusion of Great Japanism.

-- Born in Tokyo 1884. As editor of Toyo Keizai Shimp

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

-- Henry George

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

-- Born in Cambridge in 1883, Keynes

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialists.

-- Born in Vienna in 1899, Hayek

Economics deals with society's fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen.

-- Born in Lemberg 1881

Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.

-- Born in London in 1772 to a Jewish immigrant famil