A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted 'responsible money management' for the gold standard. But there is… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We do not have free market capitalism in America; we have crony capitalism. There is a huge difference between free market capitalism… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is also incapable of promoting sustainable development, not because it encourages technological advances that are capable of straining the earth's resources… — Ellen Meiksins Wood Copy Share Image
Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
“A 2011 OECD report showed that, over the past three decades, in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Israel, and New Zealand--all countries that have… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
“It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“In light of their views on the organization of society and political economy, Westerners, especially Americans, can be separated into two basic… — Sarah Chayes Copy Share Image
“Competition is often conflated with capitalism, but they are not at all the same. Capitalism involves private ownership of the means of… — Marc Levinson Copy Share Image
“If there is to be no ceiling on the amount of money a man can take out of our economy, then concomitantly… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“For all the ugly vices that capitalism encourages, it's at least interesting, exciting, it offers possiblities. In America, the struggle is at… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Much of modern life is based upon a false logic, a logic that assumes that happiness and well-being come from financial prosperity.… — Nic Marks Copy Share Image
Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, you're either for investment and risk taking as a solution for what ails the economy, or… — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Much as we live in an economic and social order that is structured to exploit people, we live in one that is… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
To ensure stable and sustainable economic growth, world leaders must re-examine the international rules of the monetary game, with advanced and emerging… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb… — Martin Wolf Copy Share Image
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
Quite apart from our desire to avoid destroying the planet or economic meltdown, I offer another reason to position cooperation at the… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. “Fear,” he used… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and… — Dani Rodrik Copy Share Image
When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors.… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business… — Lord Clyde James Avon Clyde Copy Share Image
Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time… — Pete Holiday Copy Share Image
The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“All rational action is economic. All economic activity is rational action. All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image