For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
People are increasingly becoming disappointed and disillusioned with politics and business, and especially with the market economy. They are meeting the physical… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
You know what higher interest rates mean. To you it means a higher mortgage payment, a higher car payment, a higher credit… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a… — Neil Gershenfeld Copy Share Image
I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Economists and financial analysts are not like steelworkers or people in other occupations. They don't get evaluated based on their performance. They… — Dean Baker Copy Share Image
What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
“Much of modern life is based upon a false logic, a logic that assumes that happiness and well-being come from financial prosperity.… — Nick Marks The Happiness Manifesto Copy Share Image
“American capitalism replaced some of the old colonial capitalisms in the countries that began their independent life. But it knows that this… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. The inherent vice of capitalism… — Sir Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms:… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
You can have a strong economy or you can help the environment, but you can't do both at the same time. That's… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
“Economics is really about two stories. One is the story of the old economist and younger economist walking down the street, and… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Capitalism allocates resources, generates innovation, rewards effort, and builds affluence with high efficiency, and these are extraordinarily important things to do well… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
“A variation on this strategy was implicit in a new definition of “poverty” that the Left began to offer in the early… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
I think what we're going to ultimately recognize is that capitalism was a transitional and immature system. It got the planet to… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“Economies about money are called market economies. But we use the term in a more abstract way to refer to any kind… — Ernest Adams Copy Share Image
I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I felt completely ready to become prime minister. I came to office better equipped, in terms of knowledge of economics and of… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
“There is a note of truth in the idea that adversity fuels creativity, but when reduced to an economic truism - a… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Free trade has been proven, time and again, as a reliable path to economic development. It pushes the public and private sectors… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The point is, there's this new sense of skepticism and questioning toward tech, even if it is pretty inchoate. What I hope… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obama liberals, in their incalculable arrogance, believe they are smart enough to defy everything we know about human nature, economics and history… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“First, capitalism has created a world that nobody but a capitalist is capable of running. The only serious attempt to manage the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people:… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“Then, madam, they do nothing.” Albert Einstein once said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
