If a country with a free market trades with a managed economy, it in effect imports the industrial-policy choices of the managed… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
“In arguing against free enterprise capitalism, the collectivist always adopts the false assumption of a fixed number of jobs in that system.… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to… — Daniel De Leon Copy Share Image
Whether or not [the company] maximizes resources, that's the job of the leader. How do I get greater results using less resources?… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P.… — George Packer Copy Share Image
What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Kita selalu berkaok-kaok tentang sosialisme, tapi tindakan pemerintahan kebalikan dari itu. Harga bensin misalnya, dinaikkan sekaligus 62 kali lipat, tarif gas dan… — Mohammad Hatta Copy Share Image
A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms… — Matthew Rabin Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only engine credible enough to generate mass wealth. I think it's imperfect, but we're stuck with it. And thank… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“The ICC [Interstate Commerce Commission] illustrates what might be called the natural history of government intervention. A real or fancied evil leads… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Economics is a political argument. It is not – and can never be – a science; there are no objective truths in… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“Wages Against Housework,” a pamphlet central to a feminist campaign in the 1970s condemning the unpaid labor of housework and caregiving. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Bankruptcy cleans out the system. What’s wrong with that? South Korea went through this in the late 1990s. They didn’t have anyone… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“Sweezy argued on the basis of Marx and Keynes that “accumulation is the primary factor” in capitalist development, yet noted that its… — John Bellamy Foster Copy Share Image
What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the… — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively… — Ellen MacArthur Copy Share Image
Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender… — Jil Sander Copy Share Image
I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Our main aim globally is to connect more women to the economy because we know there is a specific market failure there:… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is astonishingly efficient at generating new wealth, but it operates beneficently only when the market is shaped by moral forces coming… — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
President Trump's economic plan which centers on tax cuts and deregulation has breathed new life into the American economy, fostering an incredibly… — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
A true infrastructure investment must include transforming our economy to handle the climate crisis, supporting care workers, reforming SSI, making child care… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The financial industry may not be synonymous with economics, but it does control a large enough sector of the global economy to… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
“Of course, men often 'use their economic superiority to gain sexual advantages,' but women often use their sexual superiority to gain economic… — David P. Bryden Copy Share Image
“Among college students, economics and philosophy majors have similar current incomes, but it’s the economics students who drive cars, because it’s the… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image