Have you heard the joke about the chemist, physicist and economist who get wrecked on a desert isle, with a huge supply of canned baked beans as their only food? The chemist says that he can start a fire using the neighbouring palm trees, and calculate the temperature at which a can will explode. The physicist says that she can work out the trajectory of each of the baked beans, so that they can be collected and eaten. The economist says "Hang on guys, you're doing it the hard way. Let's assume we have a can opener. . Steve Keen
I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.
-
Santosh Kalwar
Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", it's just "fuck it, man.
-
Louis C.K.
Investigation?" Isabelle laughed. "Now we're detectives? Maybe we should all have code names."" Good idea, " said Jace. "I shall be Baron Hotschaft Von Hugenstein.
-
Cassandra Clare
It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.
-
Rick Riordan
Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immediately identifiable. Clary twirled the phone cord nervously around her finger. "Yeees?""Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I"m afraid I made...
-
Cassandra Clare
More Quotes By Steve Keen
...If you look at mainstream economics there are three things you will not find in a mainstream economic model - Banks, Debt, and Money. How anybody can think they can analyze capital while leaving out Banks, Debt, and Money is a bit to me like...
We should look closely on what is happening at the moment, guys with little moustaches can pop up everywhere now given this instable economic situation. A look into history shows us what that could mean.
This resulted in a model of the macroeconomy as consisting of a single consumer, who lives for ever, consuming the output of the economy, which is a single good produced in a single firm, which he owns and in which he is the only employee,...
Have you heard the joke about the chemist, physicist and economist who get wrecked on a desert isle, with a huge supply of canned baked beans as their only food? The chemist says that he can start a fire using the neighbouring palm trees, and...
Economics also has to become a fundamentally monetary discipline–from the consideration of how individuals make market decisions through to our understanding of macroeconomics. The myth of "the money illusion" (which can only be true in a world without debt) has to be immediately dispelled, while...
