Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I want a trade that is not trickle-down trade, but trade that recognizes we're in a global economy. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect. — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
Students from other E.U. countries are worth billions to our economy and help drive it through their hard work and innovation. — Anna Soubry Copy Share Image
Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all. — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
“The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
We're subject to the same forces of capitalism that have built the entire American economy. Strong returns induce more capital flow, which… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make economy,… — Steve Keen Copy Share Image
A properly functioning free market system does not spring spontaneously from society's soil as crabgrass springs from suburban lawns. Rather, it is… — George Will Copy Share Image
Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
We want people to take care of themselves. We want people to provide for themselves. We want people to enjoy the fruits… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
For it is no railways, roads, and power stations that give rise to industrial capitalism: it is the emergence of industrial capitalism… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“But in a free enterprise economy, increased production increases the number of jobs. It might be said that one job creates another,… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Although the view that, once discovered, ideas can be imitated for free by anybody is pervasive, it is far from the truth.… — Michele Boldrin Copy Share Image
“It’s time to put aside the search for economic laws demonstrating that growing national output will eventually deliver ecological health. Economics, it… — Kate Raworth Copy Share Image
“frenzy in the early capitalist states of Europe for gold, for slaves, for products of the soil, to pay the bondholders and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Most people are oblivious to F.A. Hayek's insight that the critical information needed to run an economy - or even 15 percent… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The first commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow forever. Companies get bigger. National economies need to swell by a certain percent each… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“As a rule, capitalism is blamed for the undesired effects of a policy directed at its elimination. The man who sips his… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
“If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.” — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary. — Steven Landsburg Copy Share Image
There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm. — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective. — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“When we think about an economic problem, the first answer that occurs to us is not always the correct one.” — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Capitalism, simply put, is where the poor are an asset to the rich, and the rich are a liability to the poor. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And entrepreneurship is a risky and heroic activity, necessary for growth or even the mere survival of the economy.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“When economic imbalances became extreme, the lack of equilibrium and viability could threaten social and political order.” — Joshua A. Berman Copy Share Image
Slowly, but surely, we are moving in the right direction. We're on the right track. The economy is getting stronger — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
