Charles P. Kindleberger (Charles Poor "Charlie" Kindleberger) Quotes
Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.
Charles P. Kindleberger
Quotes to Explore
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The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum.
Ian Hacking
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
Vaclav Klaus
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According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.
Ana Castillo
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Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
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For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
T Bone Burnett
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I didn't know who I was and I didn't know if what was in me was any good. But my parents taught me to believe in myself and to work until something happens.
T. D. Jakes
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I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized the tech conversation is. There's also this neurological fixation, the incessant wondering what the Internet's doing to our brain: "Does it make us stupid, does it make us distracted?" And then the other guys say, "No, it's making us smarter than ever, and better than ever, and more connected." And it's like, where is the economic and social context? Why is that rarely considered?
Astra Taylor
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A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?
Itay Talgam
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If you want to go and build a company that exists in Silicon Valley, then you should go and do it there. But if you want to build a company that is Australian, that represents your culture and your being, then you should do it in Sydney.
Harper Reed
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There was a lot of stones what the builders refused. I think I was one of the stones what many builders did refuse.
Burning Spear
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In my experience, folk find it nigh on impossible to call a thing what it is.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.
Charles P. Kindleberger
