Arbitrary limits on deficits and debt hinder a nation’s…

We used to be one of the richest countries in the world, but we are now on a path towards under-development. This austerity that…

— Marine Le Pen

Where fiscal space is low, fiscal policy needs to adjust in a growth-friendly manner to ensure public debt is on a sustainable path, while…

— Gita Gopinath

Countries with fiscal space should invest in physical and social infrastructure to raise potential growth.

— Gita Gopinath

Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.

— Christine Lagarde

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.

— Alistair Darling

The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but…

— Frances O'Grady

When people are running up more and more debt for housing, they call that "real wealth." It exposes what's wrong in the mainstream economics…

— Michael Hudson

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