Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod quotes

Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“No economy ever stands still.”
-- Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod

Source : 1963 The British Economy.

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“The most basic law of economics?that one cannot get something for nothing.”
-- Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod

Source : 1948 Towards a Dynamic Economics.
“...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of the more laborious forms of statistical and field work.”
-- Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod

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“Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.”
“On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.”
“In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.”
“History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.”
“A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.”
“Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.”

Source : "Little chance country's nightmare will end soon". www.standard.co.uk. February 14, 2005.
“I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.”
“The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.”
“Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.”

Source : 1956 In the Observer, 17 Jun.
“The trustworthiness of servants is the basis of the entire Indian economy.”

Source : Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.105, Atlantic Books Ltd

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