In a free market capitalist system, 'price signals' are everything. Prices are determined by buyers and sellers in the free market, and… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
It comes as no surprise that average Americans have a different perception of the economy than (US President) George W. Bush and… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
All of the economic signals in the marketplace are essentially subsidizing the use of dirty fossil fuels and penalizing clean energy. There's… — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Feminism is not antisexuality. On the contrary. It says that sexuality shouldn't be confused with violence and dominance and that it should… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
“There is a note of truth in the idea that adversity fuels creativity, but when reduced to an economic truism - a… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
“It’s time to put aside the search for economic laws demonstrating that growing national output will eventually deliver ecological health. Economics, it… — Kate Raworth Copy Share Image
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Economy is not one of the necessary principles of the universe; it is one of the jokes which God indulges in precisely… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
“In neo-classical economic theory, it is claimed without evidence that people are basically self-seeking, that they want above all the satisfaction of… — Carne Ross Copy Share Image
“Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond to them. These are not con… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
“Europe’s war against debtor countries was turning into class war, which always ends up being waged on the political battlefield. One financial… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
We have enacted many economic reforms but also others that have an impact on the overall investment climate. For instance, I launched… — Petro Poroshenko Copy Share Image
“The great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Our large size, capital base, robust funding profile, extensive distribution network, diversified portfolio, presence across the financial services sector, and leadership in… — Chanda Kochhar Copy Share Image
If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
As the greatest and last major crisis before 1836, the panic of 1819 holds considerable interest for the study of business cycles… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“The gap between financial capital of US$190 trillion looking for highly profitable investment opportunities and a real economy and social sector without… — C. Otto Scharmer Copy Share Image
My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism,… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs or international conglomerateurs, or large financial institutions buy or create mutual fund management companies to create a return on their own… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The Broader interpretation that often seems to underlie the new economy label is that we are witnessing a more fundamental change in… — Laurence Meyer Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s parts of our country were devastated by de-industrialisation. This wave of globalisation and the first fruits of technological… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are millions and millions of Sufis who have existed in Islamic history and have the deepest impact on every aspect of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Because the free market system is so weak politically, the forms of capitalism that are experienced in many countries are very far… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
We are a small, open economy, highly dependent on global flows. It is inevitably a demand that dramatically alters and that is… — John Key Copy Share Image
Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“The flames of a new economic evolution run around us, and we turn to find that competition has killed competition, that corporations… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war,… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Politically, the world economy really depends on consultants. Because it's also, in a way, an outsourcing of responsibility. They can say, "Yeah,… — Maren Ade Copy Share Image
If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
