I don't think the western world is questioning capitalism. Capitalism as a concept is not something that society has written off. But… — Kumar Mangalam Birla Copy Share Image
Those who see Smith as a defender of capitalism - as it existed in Marx's day, or as it exists today -… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We should know that only replacing the economics of competition and greed with the economics of equitable cooperation will guarantee a globalization… — Robin Hahnel Copy Share Image
Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very… — John W. Snow Copy Share Image
I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
“I am not a capitalist in the simplistic left/right sense. But I do believe in the power of the global free-market economy… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“John Kenneth Galbraith, in The Economics of Innocent Fraud, provided a still stronger condemnation of prevailing economic and social science, arguing that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
As a businessman, Donald Trump has been associated with some of the worst excesses of a particular style of value-extracting and asset… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A free-market system is one in which economic production and consumption are determined by the free choices of individuals rather than governments,… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“The trouble is, nobody knows exactly how the world really works. We are all fallible people with limited knowledge. It is only… — Gary North Copy Share Image
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will help human… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy with its own value creation, not unlike the Web's own economy.… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
“Microeconomics concerns things that economists are specifically wrong about, while macroeconomics concerns things economists are wrong about generally. P. J. O’ROURKE, Eat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
the internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
I feel like there's lot of people who know finance and economics better than I do. There are lots of people who… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
It is true that I am one of the co-authors of 'Nudge,' and I am a behavioral economist, but it does not… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
This is suicidal... our home is the biosphere. That's a very thin layer of air, water and land where all life exists.… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Events and developments that we have observed in 2014, prove that this year will be very difficult for the world economy, but… — Ilham Aliyev Copy Share Image
We do not need to understand economics in order to experience the benefits of freedom of exchange and production. But we may… — Peter Boettke Copy Share Image
“The Newtonian scheme became an illusion of determinism in a tempestuous world of human actions. Economists became preoccupied with mechanical models of… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
The Great Depression saw some sections of the business and corporate class contemplate dictatorial rule in an effort to save capitalism from… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to… — George Gilder Copy Share Image