It turns out the population issue is an easier thing to deal with than the consumption issue. Some obvious extremes in consumption… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The global economy is becoming a place where women are more successful than men, and these economic changes are starting to rapidly… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
The world economy is in a nosedive, and understanding what I call "depression economics" - the weird world you get into when… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Basic economic theory. People behave differently based on how much they think something’s worth. Because everyone got their chips for free, people… — Elle Lothlorien Copy Share Image
Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Economics are as simple as they are not obscured. And as confused as they are made to serve a selfish purpose. Any… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Why do we need so many people on Earth? I ask you. What are they good for? They live out ludicrous lives… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“ONE OF THE main differences between standard and behavioral economics involves this concept of “free lunches.” According to the assumptions of standard… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“International economic integration generally expands economic opportunities and is good for society. The great alternatives to economic integration failed. Attempts to seal… — Jeffry A. Frieden Copy Share Image
“The Capitalist Class knows that what brings on the increased supply is not immigration so much, but the improved and ever improving… — Danie DeLeon Copy Share Image
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Bearing in mind most companies rely on the middle classes in developed countries to sell goods and services throughout the value chain,… — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
Capitalism is in crisis both morally, due to widening disparities of income and wealth and disclosures of abusive practices, and ecologically, due… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people:… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is universally appreciated, I think, that theorists are able to tweak their assumptions in order to reach any conclusion they wish.… — David M. Kreps Copy Share Image
Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
A healthier, less impoverished planet is good for all of us. From an economic standpoint, it allows people to contribute more to… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom;… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
The capitalists of a country which manages to capture foreign markets from other countries are able to increase their profits at the… — Michal Kalecki Copy Share Image
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It's a film made in a very radical creative manner. It was possible because we didn't have to pander to capitalism. I… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics,… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Many bought into the idea that America could go from a technology-based, export-oriented powerhouse to a services-led, consumption-based economy - and somehow… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image