In fact, a large part of what we think of as economic activity is designed to accomplish what high transaction costs would… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
Economic transactions between national bodies who are at the same time the supreme judges of their own behavior, who bow to no… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
By the laws of the land, people who come looking for jobs in America are illegal. But by the laws of economics,… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Well, I feel that we're kind of fortunate that this book gives the whole world a lesson in economics and how to… — Jerry Bruckheimer Copy Share Image
The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth - worse… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There are black companies that are very active in the economy, that are growing and not on the basis of mergers and… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“The more important point is that Reality is much more 'nuanced' that we may imagine. Operationally co-existent economies make for a much… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK,… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
“The "hidden aspects" of the economy. That would be all the hidden things we don't know. But the hidden things are not… — Jack Silverman Copy Share Image
“This fundamental inequality, which I will write as r > g (where r stands for the average annual rate of return on… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse.… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity. The dissenter… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The long-run historical tendency of capitalism has not only been to increase real incomes more or less proportionately nearly all along the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the… — Rudolf Hiferding Copy Share Image
From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations -… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very… — Deborah Kara Unger Copy Share Image
Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
There is plenty of work to do, but big business isn't investing in rebuilding a green economy for the 21st century. Instead,… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
You can see now with all the assurance that people have about the overall general management of the economy, they then ask… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“The result was introduction and adoption of a sequence of new products. These new products started off small but, tapping the huge… — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share Image
Once one of the most important steel manufacturing centers in the world, Braddock - what's left of it - solemnly affirms one… — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
We aim to restore our focus on building an economy in which all South Africans can flourish, an economy which benefits the… — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Right now, we have an economy in trouble. And, someone who spent their career in the economy is more suited to help… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
Some economists seem to think that only a credentialed economist has the right to be utterly wrong about an issue of economics.… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power… — David Korten Copy Share Image
I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Drugs, gambling, and prostitution are the Big Three underground 'moneymakers' in consensual crime. There would be, however, significant boosts to the economy… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether… — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
