var Economist = new Array();

Economist[0] = new Array('Alan Greenspan', 'alangreenspan.jpg');
Economist[1] = new Array('John Maynard Keynes', 'JohnMaynardKeynes.jpg');
Economist[2] = new Array('Adam Smith', 'AdamSmith.jpg');
Economist[3] = new Array('Joseph A. Schumpeter', 'JosephSchumpeter.jpg');
Economist[4] = new Array('John K. Galbraith', 'JohnKennethGalbraith.gif');
Economist[5] = new Array('Joan V. Robinson', 'JoanRobinson.jpg');
Economist[6] = new Array('Thorstein B. Veblen', 'ThorsteinBundeVeblen.jpg');
Economist[7] = new Array('Friedrich August von Hayek', 'FvonHayek.jpg');
Economist[8] = new Array('Milton Friedman', 'MiltonFriedman.gif');
Economist[9] = new Array('Paul Anthony Samuelson', 'Paul_Samuelson.jpg');
Economist[10] = new Array('Herbert Alexander Simon', 'HerbertSimon.jpg');
Economist[11] = new Array('Alfred Marshall', 'AlfredMarshall.jpg');
Economist[12] = new Array('Irving Fisher', 'Irving_fisher.jpg');
Economist[13] = new Array('Jeremy Bentham', 'JeremyBentham.jpg');
Economist[14] = new Array('David Ricardo', 'DavidRicardo.jpg');
Economist[15] = new Array('John Stuart Mill', 'JohnStuartMill.jpg');
Economist[16] = new Array('Nassau William Senior', 'NassauWilliamSenior.jpg');
Economist[17] = new Array('Karl Heinrich Marx', 'Karl_Marx.jpg');
Economist[18] = new Array('Lionel Robbins', 'lionel_robbins.jpg');

var Quotes = new Array();

Quotes.push(new Array(0,'No matter who you are, making informed decisions about what you do with your money will help build a more stable financial future for you and your family.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(0,'Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(0,'Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(1,'The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(1,'Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(1,'Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(1,'By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(1,'The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(2,'All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(2,'Man, an animal that makes bargains.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(2,'But the great object of the political economy of every country, is to increase the riches and power of that country.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(2,'What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?'));
Quotes.push(new Array(3,'Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(3,'Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(3,'Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(4,'There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(4,'In the choice between changing one\'s mind and proving there\'s no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(4,'The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(4,'In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(4,'The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(5,'The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(6,'It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(7,'Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(7,'Before we can try to remould society intelligently, we must understand its functioning; we must realise that, even when we believe that we understand it, we may be mistaken.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(7,'I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(7,'I confess that I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much indetermined and unpredictable, to a pretence of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(7,'Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(7,'The more civilized we become, the more relatively ignorant must each individual be of the facts on which the working of his civilization depends.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(8,'History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(8,'A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(8,'The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(8,'Governments never learn. Only people learn.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(8,'Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(8,'The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(8,'Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(8,'The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(8,'I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it\'s possible.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(9,'An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn\'t called a decade of greed.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(9,'Funeral by funeral, theory advances.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(9,'Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(9,'Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It\'s an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(9,'Until the laws of thermodynamics are repealed, I shall continue to relate outputs to inputs -- i.e. to believe in production functions.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(10,'All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(10,'Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren\'t really very important.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(10,'One finds limits by pushing them.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(10,'Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(11,'Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(11,'Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(11,'Consumption may be regarded as negative production.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(11,'The two great forming agencies of the world\'s history have been the religious and the economic.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(11,'Economics has as its purpose firstly to acquire knowledge for its own sake, and secondly to throw light on practical issues. But though we are bound, before entering on any study, to consider carefully what are its uses, we should not plan out our work with direct reference to them.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(12,'The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(13,'It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(13,'Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(13,'It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(14,'The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(14,'Money, being a variable commodity, the rise of money-wages will be frequently occasioned by a fall in the value of money.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(15,'Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(15,'I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(16,'I find also that the whole capital is supposed in general to be turned over (or, in other words, that goods are produced and sold representing the value of the whole capital, together with the manufacturer\'s profit) in about a year.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(16,'That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(16,'The surplus revenue which they occasion beyond average wages and profits is a revenue for which no additional sacrifice has been made.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(17,'All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(17,'Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(17,'The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(17,'The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(17,'All I know is I\'m not a Marxist.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(17,'The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(17,'Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.'));
Quotes.push(new Array(18,'Every act which involves time and scarce means for the achievement of one end involves the relinquishment of their use for the achievement of another. It has an economic aspect.'));


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