The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Railroads are the primary economic beneficiaries. It's a difficult project for the public sector. — John Gates Copy Share Image
The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in… — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
The general message is about a bigger global integrated economy is going to lead to faster growth, that policy could improve efficiency… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
When people are able to live at home, they have more disposable income. That part is good for the economy. — John Layfield Copy Share Image
One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies. — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity. — Johan Norberg Copy Share Image
Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
For decades, the pace of technological change in manufacturing has outstripped that in the economy as a whole. And, so, firms -… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Business has to have capital.I think Wall Street is a necessary ingredient of the global economy, you've just got to keep people… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve's monetary policy objective is to foster maximum employment and price stability. In this regard, a key challenge is to… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish.… — David M. Kreps Copy Share Image
“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know)… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
We need a world where people do not have to live in fear of the economic repercussions of getting sick or losing… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology. The analysis is actually the easy part. The economics, the valuation of the business… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“The question of socialism or communism or capitalism or between the left and right – I think the important question is between… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I mean the whole economy just comes to a grinding halt. Competence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen.… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Stated another way, most of the economic world, at any given time, is a brownfield of traditional activities performed in traditional ways.… — James P. Womack Copy Share Image
“In this zero-marginal-cost economy, the only way to make money is to scrape consumer data from your users and sell it to… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“Imagine if the population were to discover, through real life experience, what it is to conduct their lives with a currency that… — Phil Champagne Copy Share Image
“The nascent capitalism of modernity is a sacrificial economy that worships money as fetish and sacrifices the “subjective corporeality of the Indian… — Mark Lewis Taylor Copy Share Image
“The mechanics of our economy, once you understand them, are both shocking and tempting. Unchecked power has the the same effect.” — M.B. Watson Copy Share Image
A wide range of social, collective phenomena can be made to emerge from the interactions of autonomous agents operating to simple local… — Robert Axtell Copy Share Image
We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation. — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
The purpose of economic theory is to make those who are comfortable FEEL comfortable. — Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh Copy Share Image
Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one). — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Think about it. Women control 70 percent of global consumer spending . . . when women do better, economies do better. — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
Either you can save the economy, or you can save the One Percent from losing a single penny. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Australians always want everyone to be average, as if the best thing you can do is fit in. — Poppy King Copy Share Image
“With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent.” — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If we are serious about breaking cycles of poverty, we have to change this (economy). — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider. — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
