An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. — Earl Wilson Copy Share Image
Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Black money is a cancer in our economic system, not yet terminal or life-threatening. — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
My A-levels were physics, chemistry and maths. Science is fascinating but I wouldn't say I have used it since then. I decided… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
It's hard to fathom the psychology of the economics of art. I don't quite understand it, and I don't necessarily want to… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
The E.U. is a backward-looking project based on an economic model of the 20th century. — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and powerful businessmen, who compromise the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“By extending the idea of natural law to the economic sphere - an inevitable but fundamental error - they (18th century philosophes)… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
At what price do we get our news? The role of economics in defining the nature of contemporary journalism has never been… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of… — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
“There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the… — Shawn Ryan Copy Share Image
For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place,… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I think that local school districts - not the federal government - should make the decision about how they teach science, biology,… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
“The free market system of capitalism enhances freedom in three ways. Traditionally freedom of exchange has been seen as a basic form… — Cudd/Holmstrom Copy Share Image
“Well, honey, it’s capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed,” says I. “Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
“Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
“Whereas public sector services often bring a plethora of hidden benefits, the private sector is riddled with hidden costs. “We can afford… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“The notion that property is the means to all other means was ruled out by the new radicals. The deep seated ressentiment… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“The real nemesis of the modern economy is ecological collapse. Both scientific progress and economic growth take place within a brittle biosphere,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
70 to 80 percent of country economy is controlled by the Bolivian state, and the other percentage by the private sector. We… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists. — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
“In economy, invisible hand is a set of wealthy men. It's the puppeteer who's in charge behind the curtain.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Three-quarters of India lives on the edge of the market economy. You can't tell them that only those who can afford water… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
It's important to produce economic development. Fundamentalism develops even faster with misery. — Ali Bongo Ondimba Copy Share Image
The whole thing is, really, money makes money. That's the whole thing about capitalism. Without the capital, there is no -ism. — Li Lu Copy Share Image
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
You can't just think about economy or health. There needs to be a balance between the two. — Uddhav Thackeray Copy Share Image
Communism is the end of the economy as a separate and privileged field on which everything else depends while despising and fearing… — Gilles Dauve Copy Share Image
Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life. — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is based on the concept that in order for someone to succeed, someone else has to suffer.” — Tawni O'Dell Copy Share Image
One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by… — Hugh Dalton Copy Share Image
As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image