The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics. — George Osborne Copy Share Image
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
You cannot have good capitalism without freedom. Each is strengthened by the other. — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
Economics teaches humility because it teaches us more about what we can't do than what we can do — Peter Boettke Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
With free market and free man, if you remove one of them, it is not called capitalism in my dictionary. — Li Lu Copy Share Image
Tonight, after a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
“No credit--no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.” — Solomon Northrup Copy Share Image
The future is female, so women are invited, as they do, to take responsability in the world of politics, in the economics,… — Gaetano Pesce Copy Share Image
“Inflation creates bubble and burst. That develops world economy, and will destroy it too.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Those who see Smith as a defender of capitalism - as it existed in Marx's day, or as it exists today -… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We should know that only replacing the economics of competition and greed with the economics of equitable cooperation will guarantee a globalization… — Robin Hahnel Copy Share Image
Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very… — John W. Snow Copy Share Image
Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
“The trouble is, nobody knows exactly how the world really works. We are all fallible people with limited knowledge. It is only… — Gary North Copy Share Image
We should condemn as unjust a global economic order that leads to ever-increasing economic disparities - provided this effect is foreseeable and… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“China has undergone an enormous transformation. But because the political system remains unchanged, the great changes in the economic and social sphere… — Yang Jisheng Copy Share Image
Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,'… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially available to all countries.… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“Thomas Piketty, an economist at the Paris School of Economics, warned in his zeitgeist-shifting book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, that without… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“Despite renewed questioning of our economic circumstances during the current global financial crisis, most of those in positions of influence still buy… — Jane Caro Copy Share Image