The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Economic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American system. — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
“At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We nationalize hydrocarbons, so now the economy is improving and the fight against poverty is also improving in Bolivia. — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Bin Laden studied economics and public administration before he turned to a life of jihad. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“When we think about an economic problem, the first answer that occurs to us is not always the correct one.” — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Capitalism, simply put, is where the poor are an asset to the rich, and the rich are a liability to the poor. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
When prices are transparent and competition is encouraged, consumers win. We believe that can prove true in health care as it has… — Alex Azar Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
“Poincaré’s phase space viewpoint has proved to be so useful that nowadays you’ll find it in every area of science – and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When workers make more money, they respond by being more productive in their jobs and are less likely to leave, reducing turnover… — David Rolf Copy Share Image
“Some say it's wrong to profit from the misfortune of others. I ask my students whether they'd support a law against doing… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
There's no automatic mechanism in a market system that reconciles the desire to save and the desire to invest. And therefore, the… — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
“Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The social-political future of the United States is one of domination by vast economic interests devoted to ideals of material gain, aimless… — S.T. Joshi Copy Share Image
A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful moneymaker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example. A… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
This new economy that's just emerged has a new central economic actor. It's not the worker, the person who produces, nor the… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
“Experience has taught us that material wants know no natural bounds, that they will expand without end unless we consciously restrain them.… — Robert Skidelsky Edward Skidelsky Copy Share Image
“Economy is the bone, politics is the flesh, watch who they beat and who they eat.” — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
If economists did not concern themselves with economic efficiency, nobody would. — Dennis Holme Robertson Copy Share Image
The lesson from behavioral economics is that people only save if it's automatic. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance — Oscar II Of Sweden Copy Share Image
