Economy

Ibn Khaldun

Economics

1332–1406

"All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing."

🇸🇪Bertil Ohlin

Economics

1899–1979

"Curiously enough, John Stuart Mill, although he must have been familiar with Longfield's writings, seems never to have touched upon this line of reasoning."

🇬🇧Sophie Kinsella

Literature

1969–2025

"sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!"

🇬🇧Frank P. Ramsey

Mathematics

1903–1930

"lthough my attempted reconstruction of the view of Whitehead and Russell overcomes, I think, many of the difficulties, it is impossible to regard it as altogether satisfactory."

"The bond price, and, as an arithmetical and rigid consequence, the interest rate is an inherently restless variable."

David Ricardo

Politics

1772–1823

"A BOUNTY on the exportation of corn tends to lower its price to the foreign consumer, but it has no permanent effect on its price in the home market."