Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in…

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

— Janet Yellen

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not,

— Janet Yellen

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

— James Tobin

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in…

— Tim Jackson

If we looked in the world of 1945 and looked at the map of capitalist economies and democratic polities, they were the rare exception,…

— Ashraf Ghani

Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq,…

— Arundhati Roy

Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes,…

— Ha-Joon Chang

At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in…

— Alan Greenspan

It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies of scale,…

— Tucker Max

Latin America's economies are organized in a way that concentrates wealth in a few hands but then leaves it untaxed, depriving governments of the…

— Denise Dresser

Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.

— Dan Lipinski

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

— Heather Brooke

We need to decarbonise our societies and economies.

— Sharan Burrow

Emerging market economies have long grappled with the challenges posed by large and volatile cross-border capital flows.

— Jerome Powell

I started digging and found that Israel signed a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates after the country had diversified their economy, instead…

— Shai Agassi