You know, in this business, you don't have any control over what the press says and how they portray things. And that's… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives delocalised capitalist enterprises cheap labour… — Jacques Ranciere Copy Share Image
[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. The first book in the field… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“...the special interests are almost everybody. Everybody perceives they stand to lose if the economy is allowed to evolve. They are right… — William W. Lewis Copy Share Image
If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“Ideally, a fair and equitable society would regulate debt in line with the ability to be paid without pushing economies into depression.… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Capitalism began as a theory about how the economy functions. It was both descriptive and prescriptive – it offered an account of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“The synergies between extractive economic and political institutions create a vicious circle, where extractive institutions, once in place, tend to persist. Similarly,… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
At its heart, this book touches on a mystery of economics: what exactly is happening in our world, and why does it… — Nicholas Blincoe Copy Share Image
“Recognizing that the boundaries of the market are ambiguous and cannot be determined in an objective way lets us realize that economics… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“NATIONS FAIL TODAY because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Poverty, we have said elsewhere, was the primary cause of wealth. It was poverty that created the first capitalist; because, before accumulating… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Utility is a metaphysical concept of impregnable circularity; utility is the quality in commodities that makes individuals want to buy them, and… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is,… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
If economics wants to understand the new economy, it not only has to understand increasing returns and the dynamics of instability. It… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
I think in our global economy, uncertainty is ever increasing. So to accommodate to that, we need to build a dynamic economy… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Religion is a way to make order from chaos, and I think economics is not dissimilar. In religion and in economics, you're… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
“In order for capitalism to evolve from its current toxic expression, I propose the value of international currencies be tied to an… — Said Elias Dawlabani Copy Share Image
The only way to create prosperity is to do more with less. In economic terms, an increase in productivity is an increase… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
“But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families,… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Parents, teachers, professors, economists, pundits, entrepreneurs, tinkerers and misfits all have to do a better job of unapologetically singing the praises of… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is… — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
If I'm watching my son play soccer, that's what I'm doing. If I'm going to a school concert, that's what I'm doing.… — Gail Kelly Copy Share Image
“Bhutanese believe that economic development should never come at the cost of their people’s happiness. Therefore, in every trade deal the government… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands,… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
I love creating things, and as an entrepreneur, I've taken on quite a lot of major corporations and done well. Capitalism is… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
You know, whatever it takes. It's very important obviously from an economic point of view because of the need for innovation, for… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
“What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image