The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Why not give ME 50 billion dollars. I can go build a car plant and make cars. I can go employ people.… — Jimmy Dore Copy Share Image
“Anyone who objects to any government whatsoever as a form of socialism ought not to pull that socialist lever in their home,… — John Médaille Copy Share Image
Politicians have patronised and talked down to us all when it comes to our economy, but ordinary working people have to manage… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange - there could have been no development of economies beyond… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
“It [predatory capitalism] is incapable of meeting human needs that can be expressed only in collective terms, and its concept of competitive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But,… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
“Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.” “What are we… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
I made an effort to ensure social safeguards. But our economy has to grow - and Chile, with a population of 17… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
We know that global capitalism, and the commercially driven culture that comes with it, can be a powerful solvent, but many of… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole machine out there, an organized… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Cuts in a sector are never going to be welcomed, and arts funding cut by up to 30% doesn't make nice reading.… — Roxanne Emery Copy Share Image
“Consequently, even many critics of economic inequality are hesitant to endorse the claim that inequality undermines growth. Paul Krugman, for instance, says… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of… — Ernesto Zedillo Copy Share Image
My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
“Politicians have often declared that unbridled competition among financial intermediaries promotes failures that will harm the public. Although the evidence that competition… — Frederic Mishkin Mishkin Frederic Copy Share Image
“Due to its inherently limited supply for each location, land obtains its value from the natural, social, and cultural wealth that exists… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
For the Conservative Party to become the mouthpiece of energy monopolists is not only a political error; it is fundamentally at variance… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Rather than engineering our economies solely to maximise GDP, Africa's business and political leaders must build economies explicitly designed to end poverty… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Without God the economy is only economy, nature is nothing more than a deposit of material, the family only a contract, life… — Giampaolo Crepaldi Copy Share Image
“It’s all part of the life-cycle of an economy. First it’s lawless capitalism until that starts to impede growth. Next comes regulation,… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“...capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful insights in economics is this idea of a division of labor. You do the thing you're good… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
“There is no law of progress, and everything will depend on ourselves. But the actual situation is briefly and fairly summed up… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“The first enslaving illusion is the idea that people are born to be consumers and that they can attain any of their… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade,… — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image