Simple Economics Quotes

When I was a kid, I reckoned things in Hershey bars. Is this worth three Hershey bars to me?

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

You can only do three things with your money. You can spend it. You can invest it. Or you can give it away. And if you invest it, you're really just getting more money to give away or buy something. How many things can you buy? So I don't really think there's a lot of choices.

The tradition of Chicago price theory is a good one, and it is a low-tech methodology that tries to apply simple economic theory to the world.

The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.

Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.