My citizen activism is a direct outgrowth of a classical and fiscally conservative training in economics at Harvard. It is a perspective… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to… — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here… — Frederic Bastiat 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
Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'.… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
“A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. Essentially, what we've been… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“The ideological blackmail that has been in place since the original Live Aid concerts in 1985 has insisted that ‘caring individuals’ could… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“Instead of leading to the promised leisure economy of abundance by freeing society from the legacies of feudalism and the hereditary privileges… — Michael Hudson 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
“Well first of all, tell me: Is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“How could a large land empire thrive and dominate in the modern world without reliable access to world markets and without much… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“In the market economy the consumers are supreme. Consumers determine, by their buying or abstention from buying, what should be produced, by… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In nature, all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
The good news is that, at least in economics, I've seen movement away from its overemphasis on mathematical models of purely rational… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed , is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed… — Robert Herjavec Copy Share Image
Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know)… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
Properly targeted public investment can do much to boost economic performance, generating aggregate demand quickly, fueling productivity growth by improving human capital,… — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
The mischievous idea that all public needs should be satisfied by compulsory organization and that all the means that individuals are willing… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in… — Mona Sutphen Copy Share Image
In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today’s dynamic, lean economy, it’s more about asking the… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Every morning you have the economic news from all over the world, from television, radio, the Internet, and an hour later the… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
A historic investment in jobs, debt-free college, profit sharing, making those at the top pay their fair share, putting families first in… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
And one of the worst effects was that by suppressing critical thought, it also suppressed critical thought in the field of economics… — Stefan Heym Copy Share Image
... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces… — William Vickrey 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
If strong economic conditions can partially reverse supply-side damage after it has occurred, then policymakers may want to aim at being more… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
