The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists - they are too damn greedy. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity. — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand. — Al D'Amato Copy Share Image
Well, you can, but tell you this, that when you've got an economy that is growing at 4.9% it is the fastest… — Donald Evans Copy Share Image
The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Yeah, you know, there's a difference between the textbook world that economists like to imagine, and the real world where real people… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course,… — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“People above the line of bare subsistence in this age, and in all earlier ages, do not use the surplus which society… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
“And more than the quality of its institutions, what distinguishes a developed country from a developing one is the degree of consensus… — Raghuram G. Rajan Copy Share Image
Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think it's fairly easy to provide a moral defense of capitalism. It has been - over the last 200 years -… — John C. Bogle 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
This is a timely and relevant initiative. The environmental challenges facing Singapore and the region are becoming more complex. Tackling them will… — Andrew Tan Copy Share Image
“He simply believed that the capitalist system forces everyone to put economic interests at the heart of their lives, so that they… — The School of Life Copy Share Image
Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
“The Greek GDP spiked 25% when statisticians dove into the country’s black market in 2006, for instance, thereby enabling the government to… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
