Economics
- National Competitiveness Council, an independent policy advisory body in the Republic of Ireland
- National Council of Welfare, a Canadian citizens' body
- National Council on Economic Education, a nationwide non-profit organization that leads in promoting economic and financial literacy
- National Economic Action Council, a main governing body which solved the economic crisis in Malaysia between 1996-1998
- National Economic Development Council, a corporatist economic planning forum set up in the 1962 in the United Kingdom to bring together management, trades unions and government in an attempt to address Britain's relative economic decline
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Famous quotes containing the word economics:
“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
—Anonymous.
An axiom from economics popular in the 1960s, the words have no known source, though have been dated to the 1840s, when they were used in saloons where snacks were offered to customers. Ascribed to an Italian immigrant outside Grand Central Station, New York, in Alistair Cooke’s America (epilogue, 1973)
“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“Women’s battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler rather than money-maker, and our assigned specialty is far more likely to be home economics than financial economics.”
—Paula Nelson (b. 1945)