Economics Quotations

Here's my list - email me if you have another interesting economics related quotation.

"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
--Adam Smith

"The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious."
--Assar Lindbeck

"Practical men, who belive themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."
--J. M. Keynes

"Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil."
--Joseph A. Schumpeter

"If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics."
--Luther H. Hodges

"A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson.