Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
We cannot have a full economic recovery, we cannot ensure the security of this country, while the states are in the midst… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
“A sacred way of life connects us to the people and places around us. That means that a sacred economy must be… — Juliana Birnbaum Fox Copy Share Image
Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
When men see how relevant the ten commandments are for economics, they should gain new respect for the importance of the laws… — Gary North Copy Share Image
[Economic restrictions] is one of the elements that is destabilising the world economic order that was at one time created largely by… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone’s malignity. When prices rise, it is due to the profiteer; when wages… — Bertrand Russell 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
“If there are costs to becoming legal, there are also bound to be costs to remaining outside the law. We found that… — Hernando de Soto Copy Share Image
“First of all, we've never had capitalism, so it can't end. We have some variety of state capitalism. If you fly on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“When I was an undergraduate studying economics under Professor Arthur Smithies of Harvard, he asked me in class one day what policy… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Whereas public sector services often bring a plethora of hidden benefits, the private sector is riddled with hidden costs. “We can afford… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of nature, not a social construction… — David Harvey 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
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of… — Kim Stanley Robinson 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
[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked… — Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Copy Share Image
Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an "independent" agency operated by selfless public servants striving to… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
Although being economics editor sounds impressive, it does not mean I actually edit anything. It mainly reflects two decades of title-inflation at… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
What must never be lost sight of is that a public functionary, in his capacity as functionary, produces absolutely nothing; that, on… — Charles Dunoyer Copy Share Image
Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation,… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
“Marxian Socialism or state Capitalism, no doubt is the irrefutable paragon of what is a coveting and thus corrupt disposition. For Whatmore… — Daryavesh Rothmensch Copy Share Image
capital is the result of saving, and not of spending. The spendthrift who wastes his substance in riotous living decreases the capital… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
It's not trickle down economics. The problem that the president has is that he's rudderless on the economy. I mean, he doesn't… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
“The markets in the long run are no doubt driven by fundamental economic laws—if the United States runs a persistent trade deficit,… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
China has, all of a sudden, found a way of putting the best of the best to work to build an economy… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Elon just presented a plan for settling the solar system in this century that is realistic and affordable. In my paper, 'A… — Bruce Pittman Copy Share Image
Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small… — Karen Mills Copy Share Image
Big Water makes an argument straight out of Economics 101. The best way to deliver water to people's homes efficiently, the water… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Being working class, my parents thought, 'Ian's going to uni, the first in the family,' and I'd do dentistry or accountancy. I… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image