The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We envision a more Germany-style economy, where 20 percent of our workforce is in manufacturing. And we're not talking about banging tin… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
After getting driven into the ground by the policies of the Bush administration, the economy is creeping up. It's doing that because… — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist. Are its allegations concerning the present system true?… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
“Back in Ancient Greece when Xenophon first posed the economic question, ‘How should a household best manage its resources?’ he was literally… — Kate Raworth Copy Share Image
“Short-termism also dominates in the marketplace. The market uses a discount rate of 10% per year (or more) when comparing costs now… — Jørgen Randers Copy Share Image
“It is certainly true that imitation is everywhere, from sport to business, from dancing to dressing, from driving to singing. In fact,… — Michele Boldrin Copy Share Image
“But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years.… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“Far back in history, there is evidence that men who have attempted to solve the riddle of water have been bitterly attacked.… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
“The social system of capital separates most people from the conditions of existence. This compels the vast majority to accept the mediations… — Wolfi Landstreicher Individualism and Communism Copy Share Image
“It is often asked: Why was capitalism destroyed in spite of its incomparably beneficent record? The answer lies in the fact that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“John Kenneth Galbraith, in The Economics of Innocent Fraud, provided a still stronger condemnation of prevailing economic and social science, arguing that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard of the book 'Freakonomics?' So there's these two economics professors, and they're really interesting guys, and they wrote… — Oliver Luck Copy Share Image
People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the… — Karen Mills Copy Share Image
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
“Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that,… — Karen Mills Copy Share Image
We need a movement that says in a highly competitive global economy all of our kids who have the ability, the qualifications… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In Poland we still believe - and this certainly applies to my government - that greater competitiveness, and greater growth and savings… — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
If you look at cricket per se, if you didn't have T20 cricket, Test cricket will die. People don't realise. You just… — Ravi Shastri Copy Share Image
Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust.… — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
“There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits… — Milton Friedman 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
If adapted to the unique requirements of various regions and peoples of the world, such economic pluralism could have a greater global… — Robert Dickson Crane Copy Share Image
The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on,… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image