Economic History

🇺🇸Thomas Sowell

Economics

Chicago school of economics

b. 1930

"Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power."

🇺🇸Joel Mokyr

Economics

b. 1946

"By ignoring and evading rather than altogether abolishing obsolete rules and regulations, eighteenth century Britain moved slowly toward a free market society."

"O give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall !"

"We can see good economic policies in the context of a consistent analysis of the economy."

"Perhaps because there are so few good studies, economists tend to undervalue and misunderstand the exercise when they think of their subject."