“Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a fe...” — Paul Samuelson Quote

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

American society was economically ill-run in the 1980s. Our society has been on a consumption binge. If the American people had a town meeting and said, 'What do we care about posterity? Posterity hasn't done anything for us; we're going to whoop it up now,' that is a rational judgment. But nobody ever did that.

Let those who will - write the nation's laws - if I can write its textbooks.

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.

I think most politicians have almost no understanding of economics; otherwise, they wouldn't have become politicians.

The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.

I liked business studies and economics at school and it followed on from there.

I have to find the story relatable or at least interesting to be a part of it. Then there are times when I take up films to balance my economics.