Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that. — James Gray Copy Share Image
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
We do not believe that you can be 'half responsible' or pick and choose the convenient areas to be responsible in — Arun Sarin Copy Share Image
An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
The German car industry has a clear vision of the necessity of stability in the continent that goes beyond selling cars. For… — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The situation is that in Germany capitalism has remained, classes and class struggle have remained which all the same will break into… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust.… — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
In this context, the current recovery in the Japanese economy is taking place in tandem with the growing interdependence with the rest… — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
My response [to fear of being poor]was to study contracts, finance, economics, to plan, to have a goal, to work on that… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“One way of minimizing costs is to figure out how to manufacture a product with the least possible resources. In the telecommunications… — Thomas J. DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“It’s true: greed has had a very bad press. I frankly don’t see anything wrong with greed. I think that the people… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“How could a large land empire thrive and dominate in the modern world without reliable access to world markets and without much… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“After World War II, the Italians made tremendous efforts to rebuild their country’s industry and economy. During the 1950s and ‘60s, with… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share Image
“As the authors of the studies point out, these effects suggest that economics education may have serious consequences for students’ attitudes towards… — Vaddhaka Linn Copy Share Image
Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts (pure theory) and facts without theory — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Economics brings into full view that conflict of choice which is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence. — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
“While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don’t have any choice to make. Bertrand Russell” — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
This economic pie that is getting ready to explode before our eyes is going to be shared equally. — Ray Nagin Copy Share Image
history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to… — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
I'm not political, but I am policy-oriented and I am interested in the right moves for our economy, for our nation; but… — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong. — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image