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" In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment. "

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" A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights. "

" Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others. "

" My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men. "

" I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going. "

" I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl. "

" Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country. "

" A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes. "

" Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose. "

" I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement. "

" Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls. "

" My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans. "

" A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research. "

" I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940. "

" The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.' "

" Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand. "

" The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations. "

" When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion. "

" A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions. "

" It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment. "

" An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains. "

" I'm not attacking the idea that people live in conglomerations of houses in proximity to one another, sharing the same water mains and the same newspaper delivery boy and so forth. I'm not objecting to that. That could happen with or without homeownership. "

" In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction. "

" Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs. "

" Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder. "

" My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time. "

" One reason why upturns follow downturns is that downturns tend to overshoot. People get panicky, they're afraid to stay the course, so they start selling. The other thing is that I think, as entrepreneurs keep on waiting to produce new things, that there's an accumulation of as-yet-unexploited new ideas that keeps mounting up. "

" I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are depriving themselves of intellectual stimulation in the workplace - and personal growth - by sticking to the stultifying, rigid system that I call corporatism. "

" To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.' "

" Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply. "

" Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union. "