Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend. — Michal Kalecki Copy Share Image
Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life. — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Everyone has a stake in preserving our planet and finding ways to make a green economy possible. — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
“Greece's bailout, then Ireland's, then Portgual's, then Spain's were primarily rescue packages for French and German banks.” — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“As strange as it sounds, broken people are fixed by other broken people. It's God's economy.” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped. — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“The laws you see today are a direct consequence of economic illiteracy in the general population. If every voter learned economics tonight,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the free economy, there can be no fixed number of jobs, not for one minute. Employment, production, and consumption in a… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
I don't think Brian Cox does 'The Wonders of the Solar System' because he believes the world would be a better place… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about… — K'naan Copy Share Image
[Economic restrictions] is one of the elements that is destabilising the world economic order that was at one time created largely by… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
So many people are living their lives out in an illusion. The illusion is that everything they know and perceive to be… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens,… — Edward S. Herman Copy Share Image
“The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory.” Although by any conventional measure it is folly… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“α = r × β where r is the rate of return on capital. For example, if β = 600% and r… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“Capitalism has come, not only to serve Britain's purpose by keeping the people divided, but, by setting worker against worker, it has… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“In the late Middle Ages the stupefying simplicity of the heliocentric model was used as an argument to discredit the new astronomy.… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions. — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
I think the economy is the point of greatest uncertainty for most people. — Don Iveson Copy Share Image
“Being a good employee is a service to the whole economy.” — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth Copy Share Image
The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free. — B. Joseph Pine II Copy Share Image
Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin. — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image