As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“A healthy Banking system is one of the vital parts of a nation's foundation.” — Hendrith Smith Copy Share Image
My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy. — David Korten Copy Share Image
“People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.” — Trevor D. Richardson Copy Share Image
The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now. — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
President Bush released his tax returns yesterday. He listed the economy as a liability. He gets to write that off. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
If I've learned anything as an economic analyst, it is that the stock market and economic winds can shift by the hour. — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea. — William Randolph Hearst Copy Share Image
I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of… — David Autor Copy Share Image
“Tens of millions of laborers across the world will be quickly thrown out of work, with all that will entail for their… — John Price Copy Share Image
We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of… — Fiorello H. La Guardia Copy Share Image
When inflation begins to rise, that's a situation we know how to deal with. When the economy is not doing well, and… — Charles L. Evans Copy Share Image
I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization,… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
We are very, very thoughtful about once an economic system creates maldistribution of wealth, thinking about how we redistribute it, but we… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
“Economic growth has liberated societies from the natural pressures that forced them into an immediate struggle for survival; but they have not… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“When Communism fell in 1989, the temptation for Western commentators to gloat triumphantly proved irresistible. This, it was declared, marked the end… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
One of our great strength, world capitalism, is the most successful economic system possible, but has also become one of shorter and… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
“As Bosteels argues, to invoke the communist horizon is to produce "a complete shift in perspective or a radical ideologi cal turnabout,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and narcotics. If these articles of consumption… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
There should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences. It would be a great misunderstanding… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“In nineteenth century Europe (and later in other parts of the world) the transition from a subsistence to a market economy based… — Eleanor Burke Leacock Copy Share Image
“Most of the fundamental errors committed in economic analysis,” Joseph Schumpeter wrote in his History of Economic Analysis, “are due to lack… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Clients don't want us to do what they ask, they want us to go further — Kevin McLean Copy Share Image
Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future. — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image