After the rise of Thatcherism, the smashing of the trade unions, and the post-cold war sense that any alternative to free-market capitalism… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
Capitalism has improved the standard of living of the wage earners to an unprecedented extent. The average American family enjoys today amenities… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Marx is thought of as an implacable foe of capitalism. But go back and read the first section of the Communist Manifesto.… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Is precisely in market dealings that market prices are formed for all kinds of goods and services, which will be taken as… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
One of our great strength, world capitalism, is the most successful economic system possible, but has also become one of shorter and… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
“One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you are in a discipline,… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Every time I say the word capitalism, everyone just assumes I have plenty of Marxism in me, I do. But Russia and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' is not above sudden, disturbing, movements. Since its inception, capitalism has known slumps and recessions, bubble and froth;… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“At the same time, however, the necessity for economic change in our countries has led us to conceive laws and accept traditions… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“They control Europe under the attractive and falsely uniting banner of the “European Union”, the Middle East under the convenient banner of… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“The only fundamental and possible Socialism is the socialization of the selective breeding of Man: in other terms, of human evolution We… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers… — Avram Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism benefited the masses in a double way - both by greatly increasing the wages of the masses of workers and… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The institutions at the centre of capitalism are bigger than they've ever been, the pay is much greater, the ability of society… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
From the time I first understood economic principles, I was always concerned also that any system be operated on an efficient basis,… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw… — Joe Slovo Copy Share Image
There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I think on the efficiency level, not only the distribution level, capitalism is a flawed system. It probably has the same virtues… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives delocalised capitalist enterprises cheap labour… — Jacques Ranciere Copy Share Image
Marx and Lenin were ahead of their time. Marx wrote before offshoring of jobs and the financialization of the economy. Lenin presided… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
