Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity. — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
“In communism, the men who establish the commune plan its economy.” — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
We need an economy that fosters and encourages competition and innovation. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
“If morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work.” — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Most of economics can be summarized in four words: 'People respond to incentives.' The rest is commentary. — Steven Landsburg Copy Share Image
One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm. — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
“Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective. — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I think we could see that fairly early in 2015: The cloud of economic weakness in Russia is spreading over Europe.… — Charles Dallara Copy Share Image
“In California, the state's huge dairy herd produces twenty-seven million tons of manure a year, the particulates and vapors from which have… — Paul Roberts Copy Share Image
“Vladimir Putin rose to lead Russia to victory over the Wharton School of Economics’ plan to bleed Russia dry. As we shall… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as… — Jerry Rubin Copy Share Image
The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
The growth of a nation's productive potential is the central factor in determining its growth in real wages and living standards… high… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I talked with people starting up in the middle of the recession and employees, and supplies and office space were cheap. As… — JJ Ramberg Copy Share Image
“The peasants and workers of Europe (and eventually the inhabitants of the whole world) paid a huge price so that the capitalists… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
Our country, our economy - don't doubt me on this - our economy is based on capitalism. Barack Obama's stated reason for… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Global warming, environmental degradation, global flows of economic speculation and risk taking, overpopulation, global debt, new viruses, terrorism and warfare, and political… — James Paul Gee Copy Share Image
Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic… — Fred Barnes Copy Share Image
“Capitalism tends to do to art what value meals do to cuisine. Think of what the food industry in our nation has… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a powerful producer of output, crisis-mongering on the left notwithstanding, and this too makes the system seem to have a… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
“Debts are subject to the laws of mathematics rather than physics. Unlike wealth, which is subject to the laws of thermodynamics, debts… — Soddy Frederick Copy Share Image
Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult. — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
I had made a great deal of money, and I was proud of it. I was a capitalist. — Dick Clark Copy Share Image
