“the primordial artifact- of the Kaaba of canonical economics today is the claim that the free market somehow caused, and failed to… — Axel Kaiser Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
A gender capitalist is someone who takes advantage of opportunities given to people based on their perceived sex or gender. — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support. — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy. — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
“Tell me naughty things while I jack off. Say anything freaky, but don’t mention finance or economics. That’s just too kinky.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Our country today is at a cross-point of several crises that were triggered by three groups of causes: the effects of the… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The tech-driven economy leads to a two-tier job market where workers are either critical or 'commodity.' This divisive 'winner-take-all' mentality hurts most… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
If you're going to make comments on economy, study economy. If you're gonna make comments on world history, make sure you learn… — Yoel Romero Copy Share Image
What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“In the vast library of socialist theory, and in all of Marx’s compendious works, there is not a chapter devoted to the… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Well first of all, tell me: Is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“When I applied to graduate school many years ago, I wrote an essay expressing my puzzlement at how a country that could… — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning? The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“According to the economic story, you're free to enter and exit the world of markets as you please. As a buyer, you're… — F.S. Michaels Copy Share Image
The industrial economy which divides society absolutely into two portions, the payers of wages and the receivers of them, the first counted… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Though the poorest Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, many relatively wealthy people voted for Trump and generally it's a mistake to think… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“Private property based on the labour of the small proprietor, free competition, democracy, i.e., all the catchwords with which the capitalists and… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
What I have done is to show the importance for the working of the economic system of what may be termed the… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
Competition-ruthless, unforgiving, to-the-death competition-is a crucial feature of capitalism. — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small… — Ann Wagner Copy Share Image
Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington. — Mike Lowry Copy Share Image
Most of the expressions we use in economics are relative terms. All of us are votaries of free trade. — Nirmala Sitharaman Copy Share Image
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Thatcherite economic policy was most acutely felt in the coal industry, where tens of thousands of jobs were lost as pits were… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex. — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Why should the idea of Western liberal democracy automatically imply unregulated free-market capitalism? — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
“I believe the free enterprise system is not an economic alternative. It's a moral imperative.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
