We have a choice: we can allow the growing disparity between rich and poor to continue unimpeded, or we can take action… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and… — Gary H. Stern Copy Share Image
By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
“The result was introduction and adoption of a sequence of new products. These new products started off small but, tapping the huge… — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share Image
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
It seems to me that as economics drives politics and money markets set policies, what we have is an enormously powerful emergence… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“we decided to take Drucker’s advice and follow the money. First, we dubbed the amount of cash and coin people spend each… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“The “food system,” according to Professor Shaw, now uses 16.5 percent of all energy used in the United States. This 16.5 percent… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Phaeton said, "No civilization can exist without money. Even one in which energy is as cheap and free as air on Earth,… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more unpopular today than the free market economy, i.e., capitalism. Everything that is considered unsatisfactory in present-day conditions is charged… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The processes of corporate power do not work in isolation. The economic and legal mechanisms that allow the privatization of the commonwealth,… — George Draffan Copy Share Image
“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I want economists to quit concerning themselves with allocation problems, per se, with the problem, as it has been traditionally defined. The… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
“a basic income is arguably more justified by the need for economic security than by a desire to eradicate poverty. Martin Luther… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“When Communism fell in 1989, the temptation for Western commentators to gloat triumphantly proved irresistible. This, it was declared, marked the end… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If I'm watching my son play soccer, that's what I'm doing. If I'm going to a school concert, that's what I'm doing.… — Gail Kelly Copy Share Image
I love creating things, and as an entrepreneur, I've taken on quite a lot of major corporations and done well. Capitalism is… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
“There are no 'rights' of special groups, there are no 'rights of farmers, of workers, of businessmen, of employees, of employers, of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I largely agree with those that hold that Government should not in general interfere with the course of the economy merely on… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
A lot of times, my work is looked at very much on the surface. It's very easy to just want to put… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The sooner the world solves its economic problems, the sooner its inhabitants can afford leisure and peace and get on with the… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
I don't think the western world is questioning capitalism. Capitalism as a concept is not something that society has written off. But… — Kumar Mangalam Birla Copy Share Image
Capitalism now seems more likely a swamp, a bog, a quicksand in which humanity is presently flailing about, unable to extricate itself,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“One conceit of economics is that markets as a whole can perform fairly rationally, even if many of the participants within them… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
The study of economic organization commonly proceeds as though market and administrative modes of organization were disjunct. Market organization is the province… — Oliver E. Williamson Copy Share Image
Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
“John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, died in 1946. But his ghost lives on. When economies around the world contracted sharply… — Alan S. Blinder Copy Share Image
Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
My own kids are absolutely allowed to help me cook it. They of course have the added bonus of knowing how to… — Nadiya Hussain Copy Share Image
“But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country is dominated by drug economy and… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
The fact is whether one looks at this [outsourcing] in terms of men and women, working men and women in this country… — Lou Dobbs Copy Share Image
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