Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but… — Cnut the Great Copy Share Image
Politicians and corporations have always placed economic interests above moral interests. This is now hurting the entire planet. — Marianne Thieme Copy Share Image
The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business. — Harold Ford, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing. — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We're saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together. — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
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Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians… — Gavyn Davies Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Americans have a strange notion that the ordinary laws of economics do not apply to them. So doubtless they will think they… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
To jump-start our economy, we must leave cash in your hands - because if youve got money in your pocket, youll spend… — Tim Walz Copy Share Image
People think that this concept of GDP is scientific economics, partly because it has a precise number and can be quantified. But… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“the U.S., also has the highest rates of suicide, drug abuse, murder, incarcerations, and other negative social factors. Our economy is based… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image
“The business card does not fully reflect who we are. We are being judged, we feel, in a humiliating way. We feel… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
I want us to invest in you. I want us to invest in your future. That means jobs in infrastructure, in advanced… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need… — Stuart Ewen Copy Share Image
Labor is the source of subsistence, capital is the source of affluence. My idea is to make everyone a capitalist, and therefore,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
As new technologies upend the economics of climate change, the politics surrounding the environment are changing, too. — Brian Deese Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
“The American economy is the most creative and enterprising and productive system ever devised.” — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
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I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework — Gordon Clark Copy Share Image
“Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are… — John Bruton Copy Share Image
We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is… — August Bebel Copy Share Image
Everything reminds Milton of the money supply. Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper. — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world. — Dan Gilbert Copy Share Image
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
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Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
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