Swedish Economist Quotes

Dag Hammarskjöld

Gunnar Myrdal

Gustav Cassel

Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Gallery visitors did not tell Picasso to invent cubism. Jazz fanatics did not suggest that Miles Davies should work with hip-hoppers. Moviegoers did not propose to Lars von Trier, the Danish film director, that he make Breaking the Waves. And customers sure as hell did not come up with the idea for CDNow or Amazon.com. If you want to do something really interesting and revolutionary, learn to ignore your customers.

Kjell A. Nordström

All ignorance, like all knowledge, tends thus to be opportunist.

Economics is in high degree a pedagogical discipline, and an economist must be in close touch with popular psychology in order to know what ought to be said at any particular moment.

Some bodies of knowledge emerge over time in a process of coevolution with the location in which they are embedded.

Jonas Ridderstråle

Next to bombing, rent control seems in many cases to be the most efficient technique so far known for destroying cities.