smarter people tend to think more like economists

Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.

— Rupert Murdoch

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

— Alan Greenspan

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

— Mark Zandi

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,…

— Christopher Bond

Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned…

— Charles Boustany

“The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the…

— Yaakov Malkin

“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality…

— Pierre Bourdieu

Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,…

— Kevin Rudd

Having an economy that works for the 99% is achievable.

— Winnie Byanyima

“a select group of high-performing companies have managed to close the strategy-to-performance gap through better planning and execution. These companies—Barclays, Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical,…

— Michael C. Mankins

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

— Daniel Kahneman

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.

— Frederic Bastiat

“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are…

— Karl Marx

As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way…

— Karl Marx