I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical cancer, I couldn’t help but question why we need the vaccine at all.

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a long life. A professor teaches what he was taught, and his pupils, with a proper respect and reverence for teachers, set up a resistance against his critics for no other reason than that it was he whose pupils they were.

Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.

The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.

Where is the pricing system that offers the consumer a fair choice between air to breathe and motor cars to drive about in?

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.