In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“When it comes down to it, what are being traded in a capitalist economy are property rights—the ownership rights in goods and… — Thomas J. DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not, — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
“A crucial part of the modern capitalist economy was the emergence of a new ethic, according to which profits ought to be… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We may now have reached a point where this gap in our make-up has become unsustainable; partly because what in the past… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
No company has a permanent consumer franchise. No one has the only game in town. The never-ending cycle of destruction and change… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household. ... In developed capitalist… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things"… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
In my teens I saw the world in only black and white. Now I know that most things exist in a certain… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, capitalist economy is not and cannot be stationary. Nor is it merely expanding in a steady manner.… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
“The justification of capitalism is not that the economy grows faster than it grows under any other system ... not that the… — M. Northrup Buechner Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“My conclusion is that technological capitalism is by far the best system for giving entrepreneurs and workers their “fair share.” This fair… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“manufacturing false hierarchies based on race and gender in order to enforce a brutal class system is a very long story. Our… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Google and Apple offer the image of a pseudo-commons to Internet users. That image recalls Nick Dyer-Whiteford's claim that, in light of… — Sumanth Gopinath Copy Share Image
A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
“He did not foresee that in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Capitalism is very far from a perfect system, but so far we have yet to find anything that clearly does a better… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“...capitalism is too important and complex a subject to be left to economists. Achieving a critical comprehension of it requires perspectives beyond… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
“[...] in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image