economist
American author and economics commentator (1930-2014)
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“The world is not the way they tell you it is.”
“In Freud's crowd, the individuals fasten on an object, substitute it for their ego ideal, and all those with the same ego ideal identify themselves with each other in their ego. Remove the object and you get anxiety.”
“The strongest emotions in the marketplace are greed and fear.”
“Wall Street, as you already know, is part of Marshall McLuhan's vision of the world in the Electric Age, that is, a global village dependent on oral-aural communication.”
“Most accountants are honorable men, trying to do a job. But they are hired by corporations, not by investors.”
“The phrase " the Gnomes of Zurich" was coined by George Brown, the Deputy Prime Minister of Great Britain.”
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George Jerome Waldo Goodman was an American author and economics broadcast commentator, best known by his pseudonym Adam Smith. He published fiction under his own name.