“Tell me naughty things while I jack off. Say anything freaky, but don’t mention finance or economics. That’s just too kinky.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy. — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
An important instrument of economic policy-making in a market economy is credible, consistent, and timely communication. — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now,… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
“Relative to perceived physical wants, the Stone Age economy is an economy of abundance.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poland is one of the few countries that can afford to conduct a conventional monetary policy and that means we have to… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the… — Elinor Ostrom Copy Share Image
All economic activity is dependent upon that environment and its underlying resource base of forests, water, air, soil, and minerals. When the… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Part of my advantage is that my strength is economic forecasting, but that only works in free markets, when markets are smarter… — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year… — Brooks Stevens Copy Share Image
The core principle is that we want an economy that works for everyone, not just for a small elite. We want equal… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
“He wondered, often, what it would look like if and when the shit in question hit the fan: The stock market at… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
So many people are living their lives out in an illusion. The illusion is that everything they know and perceive to be… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens,… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
“α = r × β where r is the rate of return on capital. For example, if β = 600% and r… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory.” Although by any conventional measure it is folly… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Capitalism has come, not only to serve Britain's purpose by keeping the people divided, but, by setting worker against worker, it has… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“In the late Middle Ages the stupefying simplicity of the heliocentric model was used as an argument to discredit the new astronomy.… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism. — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference about the well-being of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that capitalism is a tiny period of human society. You never really had capitalism, you always had one or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only… — Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as… — John J. Sweeney Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I have fun running all the Virgin businesses, so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
People who are living in economic struggle are more than their circumstances. They're majestic and creative and beautiful. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
