"economic virtue" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the willingness to save and invest money rather than living solely on the basis of current income. For example, "The economic virtue of saving money will pay dividends in your future financial stability."
Only two years ago, the East Asian tigers were being paraded as paragons of economic virtue.
Not while greed is seen as an economic virtue and frugality an economic vice.
To Germans surpluses are signs of economic virtue that merely reflect competitiveness and do not merit any policy response.Not all German economists see themselves as ordoliberals, of course.
The days when you could encourage your kids to save their allowance, as a form of economic virtue, may be long gone.
Those who see Germany as a fortress of economic virtue are happy to see the citizens of the periphery of the EU pay those costs.
The elevation of budget discipline to the status of paramount economic virtue has been a powerful exercise in controlling the terms of political debate.
Nor any mention of the economic virtues of Wall Street, or much talk about national politics.
Many of what were regarded as human failings have been transformed into economic virtues.
THE humble but industrious ant has long served as a metaphor for the economic virtues of simplicity, parsimony and diligence.
These tolls would have economic virtues (more on that in another column), while also reducing air pollution and fuel consumption by easing traffic congestion.
Washington lectures Latin America constantly about the moral and economic virtues of free trade, so these new tariffs — along with the vast subsidies in this year's farm bill — had been widely condemned as hypocritical.
