“George Mason’s economics department, meanwhile, became a hotbed of controversial theories that began to transform Americans’ tax bills, serving as an incubator… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Economists love to talk about incentives, but the bottom line is that people hate being controlled or manipulated, even when done through… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the… — Johan Norberg Copy Share Image
I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
No economy, no company, in fact no individual can develop its full potential today without embracing two fundamental trends - globalization and… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic… — Fred Barnes Copy Share Image
Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I talked with people starting up in the middle of the recession and employees, and supplies and office space were cheap. As… — JJ Ramberg Copy Share Image
“The peasants and workers of Europe (and eventually the inhabitants of the whole world) paid a huge price so that the capitalists… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another,… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Why do you have to develop? If economic growth rises from 5% to 10%, is happiness going to double? What's wrong with… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
With Anglo-American capitalism increasingly under attack, those who believe in the power of free markets and enterprise to create wealth and social… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the… — Michal Kalecki Copy Share Image
Elon just presented a plan for settling the solar system in this century that is realistic and affordable. In my paper, 'A… — Bruce Pittman Copy Share Image
Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy… the economies that are going… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
There are different varieties and forms of capitalism. There are priorities within the capitalist society so that you can have countervailing forces… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I don't think money can be understood through a lens limited to economics. And most books about money tell you the history… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
What do we value more: an economic system which privileges profit above all other considerations, or the continued existence of human civilisation… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
GDP has been a con perpetrated upon the poor of the world: a measure of economic activity and not of actual wealth.… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
A conveyor belt of Think Tank pundits and allied operatives poured into the TV studios, and together they built a fortress around… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ecology teaches us “that the total economy of the planet cannot be guided by an efficient rationale of exploitation alone,” wrote Burke… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
