Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love--I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
This is a global economy. If you're not at the bargaining table, if you don't get an agreement, someone else does. — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
The data are what matter in economics, and the more ruthlessness that an economist can summon to make sense of the data,… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“A good accountant is someone who told you yesterday what the economists forcast for tomorrow” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised. We're not where we should be in terms of our national… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
“When you are drawing, you are always one or two marks ahead. You're always thinking, 'After what I'm doing here I'll go… — Martin Gayford Copy Share Image
It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish.… — David M. Kreps Copy Share Image
Business has to have capital.I think Wall Street is a necessary ingredient of the global economy, you've just got to keep people… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve's monetary policy objective is to foster maximum employment and price stability. In this regard, a key challenge is to… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
For decades, the pace of technological change in manufacturing has outstripped that in the economy as a whole. And, so, firms -… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
“At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Political monopoly and economic monopoly are two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same monster. Despite all the claims… — Robert Dickson Crane Copy Share Image
The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“An important book for understanding the history of our economic boom & bust cycles. It's an eye-opening account of how we are… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Point is, you can't find a country on earth with a higher standard of living. You can't find a country higher than… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I sympathize, therefore, with those who would minimize, rather than with those who would maximize, economic entanglement among nations. Ideas, knowledge, science,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Their job as leader was not to solve the problem – the president really has little control over the economy – but… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The surtax payers, having been soaked, have found a way to get out of the rain. — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
You cannot have good capitalism without freedom. Each is strengthened by the other. — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics. — George Osborne Copy Share Image
