I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance — Oscar II Of Sweden Copy Share Image
If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would. — Dennis Holme Robertson Copy Share Image
The lesson from behavioral economics is that people only save if it's automatic. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment. — Gale Norton Copy Share Image
I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
When you increase productivity, economies become better - local economies become better, society becomes better. — Jensen Huang Copy Share Image
Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
When you help make people healthier, it makes the nation healthier; it makes the world healthier. It makes the economy healthier. — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable? — Charles Sumner Copy Share Image
It is not economic development; it's about taking money out of the consumer economy and shipping it off to Las Vegas — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. History suggests that capitalism… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We cannot have a full economic recovery, we cannot ensure the security of this country, while the states are in the midst… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
There is one rule for the G-7 (richest countries) and another for the South. The G-7 now preaches open economies and liberalization,… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
Capitalism can never pursue deterritorialization to the absolute. What deterritorialization there is within capitalism is always balanced by a compensatory lockdown onto… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“At this point we can finally see what's really at stake in our peculiar habit of defining ourselves simultaneously as master and… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
I accept the proposition that there has been a significant improvement in underlying productivity growth in the United States, that it is… — Laurence Meyer Copy Share Image
As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities,… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
“The arms industry’s economic contribution is also undermined by the frequency with which its main players around the world – Lockheed Martin,… — Andrew Feinstein Copy Share Image
“Seen from that future time, when every commodity the human mind could imagine would flow from the industrial horn of plenty in… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“The ability to discount darker people and darker nations in order to justify stealing their land and labor was foundational, and none… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image