The emphasis so far on fiscal austerity, while to a degree…

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

— Arne Duncan

[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover that what…

— Paul Krugman

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing…

— Meredith Whitney

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending…

— Mark Zandi

The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way…

— Bill Gross

“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is time to recognise that austerity alone condemns not just Greece but the whole of Europe to the probability of a painful and…

— Charles Dallara

It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more communal, more…

— Jeremy Corbyn

You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of…

— Steven Weber

Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything.…

— Mariana Mazzucato

“South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field, and a…

— Paul Alkazraji

I believe that if we are able to, obviously we need to ensure that we have a robust budget that's balanced, but there's no…

— Jagmeet Singh

“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her…

— Albert Einstein

Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism about even…

— Mariana Mazzucato