If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea. — William Randolph Hearst Copy Share Image
I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of… — David Autor Copy Share Image
Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped. — Kurt Tucholsky Copy Share Image
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Everyone has a stake in preserving our planet and finding ways to make a green economy possible. — Dean Phillips Copy Share Image
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
In a global economy, the Bush doctrine of unilateralism - going it alone - has been disastrous. It's becoming increasingly clear that… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
We've become a collectivist economy in Illinois. It's crushing us. And no problem is going to get fixed unless we bring more… — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Governments don't get elected saying, 'We're going to lower GDP next year,' governments get elected on saying, 'We're going to increase prosperity… — James Righton Copy Share Image
To be clear, no one is saying there weren't any legitimate economic grievances in Trumpland, nor is anyone claiming that the economy… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
Until the Great Depression, most economists clung to a vision of capitalism as a perfect or nearly perfect system. That vision wasn’t… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
One day, because they realize for some reason or other that they must stop credit expansion, the banks do stop creating new… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As to the latter point - that by having a child in America you are somehow starving a child in Bangladesh -… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
“Thomas Piketty, the economist of the moment, writes that after he obtained an economics doctorate, and spent several years teaching at M.I.T.,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The point of this, as Marx explains, is to show that according to classical economics the worker becomes a commodity, the production… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no… — Moses Hess Copy Share Image
If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“Greece's bailout, then Ireland's, then Portgual's, then Spain's were primarily rescue packages for French and German banks.” — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“As strange as it sounds, broken people are fixed by other broken people. It's God's economy.” — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
This unchecked spending is growing faster than our economy, faster than inflation, and far beyond our means to sustain it. — Jim Nussle Copy Share Image
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action — Chester Barnard Copy Share Image
“But the economy's out of control. Money just doesn't need human beings anymore. Most of us only get in the way.” — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
We believe that economic globalisation should be more open, inclusive, equitable, and balanced for mutual benefits. — Sushma Swaraj Copy Share Image
“Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food … just so they afford something to eat.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Small businesses have long been recognized as the economic engine for job growth, economic stability and preserving neighborhoods across Alabama and the… — Kay Ivey Copy Share Image
“planets and even galaxies, but in the meantime the modern economy has had to find a better method of expanding.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The economies in Europe that will prosper, are those that are the greenest and the most energy efficient — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The modern economics of the newsroom don't support big investigative reporting staffs. — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
High-level corruption, inefficiency, non-governance, and policy paralysis have crippled the nation's economy. — N. Chandrababu Naidu Copy Share Image
We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The Players Association has on the table a demand which doesn't recognize the reality of our league's economics today. It's a very… — Paul Tagliabue Copy Share Image
