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⇑Economics at University of Barcelona

Language: Spanish Studies in Spanish

Subject area: economy and administration

Kind of studies: full-time studies

University website: www.ub.edu/

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Economics

Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Economics

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, request to Congress to effect drastic economies in the government (March 10, 1933); in The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 (1938), p. 50.

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Men did not make the earth. ... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. ... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.

Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice (1795–1796).

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Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.

George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651). Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 216.

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