If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless:… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Among the members of these upper income groups are US academic economists, many of whom believe that the economy of the United… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. Since most of our exogenous tax… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
I think I developed a culture of healthy skepticism of claims of certainty on any side of the aisle. A sort of… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“[T]he just society is one in which each man may seek the things which belong to his nature. By contrast, a system… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Europe, it is true, is a geographical and, within certain limits, an historical cultural conception. But the idea of Europe as an… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“Stalin formulated the economic aims of socialism as: “The securing of the maximum satisfaction of the constantly rising material and cultural requirements… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“Modern society is incredibly complex, complex even beyond human comprehension, if we grant its premises—property, "production for the sake of production," competition,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“The American share of the crisis began with grossly improper mortgages provided to wholly unqualified borrowers, all directly caused and encouraged by… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties leads to serious errors. It is for this… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“The Greek GDP spiked 25% when statisticians dove into the country’s black market in 2006, for instance, thereby enabling the government to… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
It is clear that Economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science ... simply because… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Bitcoin may herald the dawning of a new age in currency. It holds superior traits as a form of 'good money.' As… — Jeremy Allaire Copy Share Image
“By extending the idea of natural law to the economic sphere - an inevitable but fundamental error - they (18th century philosophes)… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“By insisting that economic laws always take shape through social norms, values, and political choices, Piketty would rescue his discipline from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Until you separate the speculative behaviour of the financial sector from the real economy and the financing of the real economy, then… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“At the root of capitalism poverty one always finds unemployment and underemployment what Mark called the industrial reserve army which directly deprive… — SWEEZY Paul M. BARAN Paul A Copy Share Image
Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics,… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success. If one chooses to become an artist it is… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I think we could see that fairly early in 2015: The cloud of economic weakness in Russia is spreading over Europe.… — Charles Dallara Copy Share Image
I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The last 15 years we had one of the biggest economic booms. But I think a few bubbles have burst in a… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
I had a history teacher who taught us a lot about the Cold War. You had these examples of countries where the… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
I go to Stanford, and I'm an economics major, not thinking I'm going to do anything with acting. A professor came to… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
We need to be investing in manufacturing and small businesses. We need to be creating a workforce where Americans can compete in… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image