Economics Quotes · Page 79

I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years; I think we need some regulation now.

— Howard Dean

China understands economics more than most countries and is usually moved to increase freedoms when the yuan is directly involved.

— Richard Grenell

By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.

— Paul Ormerod

Climate change is a threat to the conditions in which our economy can function at all.

— Barry Gardiner

“Capitalism is the lord of time, but time is not money [like we use to say]. That is a brutality, because time…

— Antonio Candido

The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.

— James Cook

In today's information-driven economy, business and scientific talent constrains growth.

— Edward Conard

Corn occupies a really special role in what I've been calling American agro-economics.

— Hope Jahren

I'm constantly being courted by labels and their backing. Obviously the market is there when you talk about the economics and the…

— Brian McKnight

Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody…

— Walter E. Williams

When you see a Jamaica video, it's always the hood. Everybody in the video's got guns, and the world looks at it…

— Shaggy

“There are a lot of things we all know that don't want to face. I hope you already know that. It will…

— Richard D. Wolff

“For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation…

— Ron Paul

The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and…

— Donna Shalala

“At the root of capitalism poverty one always finds unemployment and underemployment what Mark called the industrial reserve army which directly deprive…

— SWEEZY Paul M. BARAN Paul A

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital. To understand why, we…

— Neil Postman

…the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“How can HOW help us repair our faltering global economy? Only by getting our "hows" right can we ensure that we are…

— Dov Seidman

“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of…

— Henry Hazlitt

“The individualist insists that drastic depressions are the result of credit inflation; (not excessive savings, as the Keynesians would have it) which…

— William F. Buckley Jr

The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Economists get very uncomfortable when you talk about virtue and vice. It doesn't lend itself to a lot of columns with numbers.…

— Charlie Munger

I still believe that, in the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free…

— John James Cowperthwaite

We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.

— Douglas Leone

If you just sort of say, everyone gets equal pay, you get away from the whole American dream, you get away from…

— Donald Trump

We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

— Jane Fonda

If you live in the digital economy, you have to be careful to have your investment thesis squarely bolted into your reality.

— Patrick Pichette

Profit, wealth creation, competition - these are not dirty words but the lifeblood of a dynamic economy.

— Ana Patricia Botin

The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.

— Anonymous

“Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.”

— Christopher Caudwell

Immigration is as much about the American experience and the values we share, and a lot more about economics than it is…

— Jeb Bush

At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays…

— Sebastian Coe

Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims…

— David Packard

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

— Jose Saramago

Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.

— Thomas Friedman

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

— Adam Davidson

What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed…

— Richard J. Foster

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

— David Foster Wallace

I want to achieve a virtuous economic cycle by raising the incomes of not just a certain segment, but a broader range…

— Fumio Kishida