In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.