To the student beginning economics and to the general reader the study of principles is likely to appear more difficult than does that of concrete questions.

(with a smile) Have they anything new to say on economics? HOLDEN: Perhaps not; but I wanted to forget economics for a time.

I ought to be reading economics.

There is no sharp line separating economics from politics.

A bright college freshman who has studied introductory economics can write a treatise as scientific as the Wealth of Nations.