I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop. — Herbert Stein Copy Share Image
If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We… — John Baldacci Copy Share Image
“At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“In Europe and Japan, bourgeois life lingers on. In Britain and America it has become the stuff of theme parks. The middle… — John Gray Copy Share Image
The capitalist system was termed "capitalism" not by a friend of the system, but by an individual who considered it to be… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Basic economic theory. People behave differently based on how much they think something’s worth. Because everyone got their chips for free, people… — Elle Lothlorien Copy Share Image
The rewards that will flow from a successful shift to a low carbon economy are high. Neither governments nor business can afford… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
“Here’s the solution. We need a CO2 tax, revenue-neutral, to replace taxation on employment, which was invented by Bismarck — and some… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
If you look at the economy, the U.S. economy, in terms of per-capita terms, in terms of other considerations, has been on… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
“Yet just eighty years ago it still seemed an impossible mission when U.S. President Herbert Hoover was tasked with beating back the… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“The bigger story was competition causing more productive business enterprises to replace less productive ones...However, it provides even more reason to worry… — William W. Lewis Copy Share Image
Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
The economy, virtually all the new income has gone to the top 10 percent, and we need to find those areas where… — Jeff Merkley Copy Share Image
Children are prepared for democracy by being led to discuss current events without first learning the systematic subjects (politics, economics, history) which… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Educating our children and giving them the skills they need to compete in a global economy is a smart investment in our… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The economic crisis caused by a hard Brexit or the democratic deficit of a soft Brexit both risk fuelling Britain's populist right. — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
We need a grownup conversation about why our political economy is killing life on Earth. — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
An economy may be in equilibrium from a short-period point of view and yet contain within itself incompatibilities that are soon going… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power. — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function. — George Soros Copy Share Image
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
“When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.” — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
We must not have an economy that discourages and chases away investors from investing in South Africa. — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You have to motivate people to take almost certain failure to get a small amount of success, which has driven our economy… — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
That is what capitalism is: a system that brings wealth to the many, not just the few. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
