Economics Quotes · Page 178

The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It…

— Lester R. Brown

As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit. 'All wealth comes from Nature. Without…

— Margaret Atwood

To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have…

— Muhammad Yunus

One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English…

— Ally Condie

Racism is not nearly as important as poverty. That's the same around the world. What look like ethnic problems are really economic…

— Marjane Satrapi

The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof…

— Eduard Bruckner

Some of our businesses use more energy than others, but our strategy everywhere is the same.. first, reduce our use of energy…

— Rupert Murdoch

As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock…

— Virginia Postrel

“Take the example of our spinner. We have seen that, to daily reproduce his labouring power, he must daily reproduce a value…

— Karl Marx

“The notion that property is the means to all other means was ruled out by the new radicals. The deep seated ressentiment…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The idealized market was supposed to deliver ‘friction free’ exchanges, in which the desires of consumers would be met directly, without the…

— Mark Fisher

“And, as inflation has fallen, so bonds have rallied in what has been one of the great bond bull markets of modern…

— Niall Ferguson

“Professor Joseph Stiglitz, former Chief Economist of the World Bank, and former Chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers, goes public…

— Anonymous

“In the conditions of this “New World Order,” a crucial part of the contemporary world economy is a criminal economy, in which…

— Todor Bombov

“The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and narcotics. If these articles of consumption…

— Thorstein Veblen

“KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS AND STIMULUS Keynesian economics is based on the notion that unemployment arises when total or aggregate demand in an economy…

— Alan S. Blinder

Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it…

— David Korten

The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto…

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up.. not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations…

— Joe Biden

I am a filmmaker. My job is to make films. When something excites you - a story or characterisation - you immediately…

— S. S. Rajamouli

When our markets work, people throughout our economy benefit - Americans seeking to buy a car or buy a home, families borrowing…

— Henry Paulson

“(1) Use mathematics as shorthand language, rather than as an engine of inquiry. (2) Keep to them till you have done. (3)…

— Alfred Marshall

By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that…

— George Soros

For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely…

— Thomas Piketty

By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain…

— Herbert A. Simon

It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics,…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

We don't have the leadership or the understanding of the value of this, and when your political systems and your economic systems…

— Wynton Marsalis

The idea that in the system, if you manage it in an optimum way, all of the constituent parts of the system…

— John Mackey

Am I a capitalist? No. Why would I be a capitalist? I have no capital. Most people have no capital. But to…

— Gloria Steinem

Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes…

— Bernie Sanders

I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain…

— Paul Romer

The most common conception of Capitalism is that it is an economic system consisting of privately owned businesses and large corporations that…

— Philip Kotler

The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral…

— Matt Taibbi

People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is…

— Jason Read

In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen…

— Alfred Adler

The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed,…

— William E. Simon

Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips…

— Simon Baker

We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world…

— Ronald Reagan

“per capita incomes scarcely changed; the new production was absorbed in supporting an increasing population. This was not economic growth. The economy…

— Edward A. Hudson

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than…

— Marianne Williamson