The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer… — John Berger Copy Share Image
In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
“Economic theory would tell you that a rational person would take the thirty dollars every time. Forget the other party, the decision… — Douglas E. Richards Copy Share Image
Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting.… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people… — Mahbub ul Haq Copy Share Image
There are two ways to think about the one percent - the Bernie Sanders way, where we're all competing for a zero-sum… — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
“[T]he just society is one in which each man may seek the things which belong to his nature. By contrast, a system… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Anyone who studies the energy predicament understands its connection with the operations of capital - and by this I do not mean… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
“Some say it's wrong to profit from the misfortune of others. I ask my students whether they'd support a law against doing… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
There's no automatic mechanism in a market system that reconciles the desire to save and the desire to invest. And therefore, the… — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
“Unlike sociology, a pariah science that is always under suspicion for its supposed political leanings, and from which the powerful expect nothing… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“The science called ‘economics’ is based on an initial act of abstraction that consists in dissociating a particular category of practices, or… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The theory of the IRS is rather repugnant to me because the assumption is made that I, the government, owns 100% of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis.… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it… — Terry McAuliffe Copy Share Image
The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed,… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It’s not that I want to punish your success. I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Pluck from under the family all the props which religion and morality have given it, strip it of the glamour, true or… — Eleanor Rathbone Copy Share Image
...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, the questioner came from Singapore, which has perhaps the best economic record in the history of developing an economy. And therefore… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“He sums up the importance and power of business model innovation this way: “I think historically where we [venture capitalists] fail is… — Mark W. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the… — Carl Shapiro Copy Share Image
Our government is committed to achieving Tamil Nadu's goal of becoming a USD 1 trillion economy by 2030 by attracting high-tech industries… — M. K. Stalin Copy Share Image
The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self-fulfillment and actualization, the… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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