“The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves paid for nanoseconds; the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
By 2007, an uncompetitive, bloated, over-borrowed and distorted Irish economy had been left at the mercy of subsequent international events without the… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to woman the role of money-handler… — Paula Nelson Copy Share Image
“The globalization and competitiveness of the world economy will ultimately result in the absolute division of human beings into two classes, and… — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the… — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
“In the days when money was backed by its face value in silver or gold, there were limits to how much wealth… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
“Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Whether we understand work spiritually depends in large part on whether we understand the economy spiritually. If we view the economy materialistically,… — Greg Forster Copy Share Image
“Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there… — Peter Joseph Copy Share Image
“In a way, underdevelopment is a paradox. Many parts of the world that are naturally rich are actually poor and parts that… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
“These new taxes and the nationalization of finance meant the U.S. government would soon be dealing with a healthy budget surplus. Universal… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Just when we are in many ways moving to an ever greater validation of the sacredness of the individual person, our capacity… — Robert N. Bellah Copy Share Image
“The economic system barely functions as it is—I mean, the contemporary economic system is a complete catastrophe, an absolutely catastrophic failure. For… — Noam Chomsky 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
“A fundamental insight of modern economics is that the key to the creation of wealth is a division of labor, in which… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Let's be honest. The powers that be all of a sudden realize that there's a lot of money to be made from… — Paula Garces Copy Share Image
I think that if it is.. has to do with global warming, or if it has to do with raising the minimum… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Prices impose the most effective kind of rationing - self-rationing. Why is rationing necessary? Because what everybody wants always adds up to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“When economists base their models on their fantasies of an "economic man" motivated only by self-interest, they forget community--the all-important web of… — Cacilda Jethá Copy Share Image
I can observe the game theory is applied very much in economics. Generally, it would be wise to get into the mathematics… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today. Our… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
[Ruling elie] haven't given up on neoliberal ideology, they use it. And I think they've normalized that ideology, the notion that, for… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the… — Rupert Everett 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
A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Well, I feel that we're kind of fortunate that this book gives the whole world a lesson in economics and how to… — Jerry Bruckheimer Copy Share Image
Gary Becker has taken economic analysis to amazing levels. His doctoral thesis, which is related to economic discrimination, and his treatises on… — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“Risk is one of the qualities of any good decision. This is so because, decision itself is a risk. Therefore, making a… — Godspower Oparaugo Copy Share Image
Innovation really is the life blood of our American economy... looking back at the stories of Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call 'the classical theory', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image