Economics Quotes · Page 148

All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun…

— Paul Shepard

What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Big Water makes an argument straight out of Economics 101. The best way to deliver water to people's homes efficiently, the water…

— Charles C. Mann

“What these men represented was not 'The West' but what was for this century a relatively new kind of monied class in…

— Joan Didion

Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this…

— Bernie Sanders

In their pursuit of growth and diversification, African economies should consider transforming the discourse from a focus on industrialisation to a broader…

— Arancha Gonzalez

“Technological advancement and wealth are conflated in capitalism with human progress. All aspects of human existence that cannot be measured or quantified—beauty,…

— Chris Hedges

Negative effects on the economy were covered up with a flood of liquidity from the Fed. That,plus lax regulation, led to a…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“Modern economics, by which I mean the style of economics taught and practised in today's leading universities, likes to start the enquiries…

— Partha Dasgupta

For 60 years, since World War II, we have been trying to create a rules-based system, a global economic system. We understand…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“One of the most momentous, yet all but invisible, psychological changes in human history has been the intensification of a sense of…

— Mark Elvin

Capitalism is a powerful producer of output, crisis-mongering on the left notwithstanding, and this too makes the system seem to have a…

— Michael Yates

“Debts are subject to the laws of mathematics rather than physics. Unlike wealth, which is subject to the laws of thermodynamics, debts…

— Soddy Frederick

Our country, our economy - don't doubt me on this - our economy is based on capitalism. Barack Obama's stated reason for…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Global warming, environmental degradation, global flows of economic speculation and risk taking, overpopulation, global debt, new viruses, terrorism and warfare, and political…

— James Paul Gee

“Capitalism tends to do to art what value meals do to cuisine. Think of what the food industry in our nation has…

— Michael Gungor

We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the…

— Barbara Jordan

I tend to look at things from the supply side, looking for ways to make it less expensive to do more production.…

— Pat Toomey

“Arbitrary limits on deficits and debt hinder a nation’s development. Austerity for the sake of balanced budgets or for the sake of…

— L. Randall Wray Yeva Nersisyan

As we work to promote greater economic opportunity for the American people, we must always remember that the American economy is deeply…

— Henry Paulson

The strategic stimulus to economic development in Schumpeter's analysis is innovation, defined as the commercial or industrial application of something new---a new…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

In the 1940s, economics started getting highly mathematical. It was basically because economists weren't smart enough to write down models of real…

— Richard Thaler

My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism,…

— Nick Denton

Free Trade puts consumers at the centre of economic activity. It lowers the cost of imports, which gives people the opportunity to…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

There's something really special for a young person to sit in an audience and discover somebody, and it's rare to do because…

— Craig Brewer

It is hard to overstate the economic importance of the U.S.A. to Scotland, and that makes it essential that we engage with…

— Nicola Sturgeon

We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of…

— Julia Gillard

In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal…

— Martin Sorrell

One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is…

— Rick Perlstein

Large financial institutions in this country will always play a role that is essential to our economic growth. But they must only…

— Henry Paulson

Many of the people I know and that you know are very complex human beings, and it's not all about race. Everything…

— Lynn Whitfield

We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local…

— James Howard Kunstler

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the…

— Adam Smith

Fighting for free enterprise means standing up for free markets. The freedom to succeed includes the freedom to fail. We must defend…

— Mike Pence

No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics…

— Ludwig von Mises

When you ask single men in their 20s, "Do you want children?" they want children more than women do. Again, economics drive…

— Stephen Marche

In the '90s, everyone thought we'd solved everything and liberal capitalism was the agreed way to live. That got blown up in…

— David Farr

I don't know what it means to manage the human imagination, but I do know that imagination is the main source of…

— Tom Peters

Reforms aimed at increasing an economy's flexibility are always hard - and even more so at a time of weak growth -…

— Michael Spence

The [economic crisis] means that we have to address the challenges and the risks, and we need to take into account the…

— Stephane Abrial