Economics Quotes · Page 131

Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

— Daniel Pauly

The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.

— Thomas Koerfer

So long as you are spending money on investment there is a very good prospect that will generate a return in the…

— Nick Boles

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a…

— Ayn Rand

The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.

— James Bovard

“In a good economy, people work hard to succeed. In a bad economy, people work hard to not fail.”

— Jarod Kintz

In difficult circumstances, teams either separate or come closer together, it's as simple as that

— Ron Dennis

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism,…

— Clara Zetkin

In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes…

— Erich Fromm

Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one…

— Barney Frank

It is here we come to the heart of the matter. The economic principle of comparative advantage', 'a country may, in return…

— David Ricardo

“In the perfect Capitalist State there would be no food available for the non-owner save when he was actually engaged in Production,…

— Hilaire Belloc

The economy is growing, productivity is high, trade is up, people are working. It's not as good as we'd like, but --…

— George W. Bush

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their…

— Eric Alterman

I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive…

— Marina Warner

Socialism and Communism don't work, but neither does straightforward capitalism. We've got to get a new way of thinking and working. We…

— Gavin Friday

“No natural forces determine income, wealth, and the quality of human life. We make the decisions about who will prosper and who…

— David Cay Johnston

The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps…

— Lester R. Brown

Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American…

— Camille Paglia

“What Ethereum Is Good For Ethereum is suited to building economic systems in pure software. In other words, it’s software for business…

— Chris Dannen

“Emotional economics has given birth to theories that calm examination cannot justify. One of these is the idea that labor is being…

— Henry Hazlitt

In the UK what we've found is that even businesses which prided themselves already on their efficient management find that a really…

— Margaret Beckett

Capitalism may have all sorts of things that are good, but ultimately, it's bad for everyone.

— Douglas Tompkins

The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

— Shawn Achor

Capitalism isn't sustainable unless it is something that belongs to all stakeholders.

— Fumio Kishida

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

— Stephen Leacock

Arbitrators, who depend on the unions for future business, regularly award big raises and benefits without any basis in equity or economics.

— Tom Suozzi

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made…

— Alfred Marshall

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

— Geraldine Ferraro

We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.

— Hillary Clinton

I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably…

— Esther Duflo

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated.

— Chris Patten

Education is popular but very low standard. No wonder the Philippine economy is bankrupt.

— Lucio Tan

Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got…

— Julia Gillard

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

— David Landes

Imperialist exploitation and an unjust international economic order are a cause of war.

— Samora Machel

Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the…

— Bill Gates

This is the kind of balance people expect: both environment and the economy - not one or the other.

— Justin Trudeau