Economics Quotes · Page 184

“The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves…

— Alan Beattie

So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together…

— Annalee Newitz

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

— Ludwig von Mises

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

— G. H. Hardy

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

— Ludwig von Mises

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Everybody has to remember that economics is very tied to politics.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

Clearly, for capitalism to work properly we must expect some upward normalisation of interest rates at some future point, to provide greater…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical…

— Geoff Mulgan

I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.

— Liz Truss

Capitalism is a set of rituals.

— Mark Fisher

Therefore, let me reiterate that the rate should not meet the interests of a specific group or one or two groups, it…

— Vladimir Putin

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Rent control is one policy that economists universally would oppose. It is a grossly inefficient way of allocating housing space and, of…

— James M. Buchanan

Modern capitalism is based on a myth: that thriving private entrepreneurs generate wealth through their own hard work, innovation and get-up-and-go.

— Owen Jones

Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands…

— Bill Moyers

When the economy changes, it's not like you want to start eating bad-tasting chocolate.

— Olivier Theyskens

The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private…

— Carroll Quigley

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it…

— Henry Ford

I can tell you exactly where the economy is going. It's going to China, Honduras, Guatemala, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cipan, and any other…

— Henry Rollins

To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in…

— Peer Steinbruck

If we need more demand in the economy then protect people in work and raise the incomes of those on low incomes…

— John McDonnell

Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of…

— Norman Davies

“We used to think God made us in His image, and that meant we were special, until science told us we just…

— Adam Roberts

Economics has become as riveting as politics.

— Tina Brown

We had a great economy under Trump 1.0.

— Scott Bessent

In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that's really rooted in a nation--and…

— William J. Clinton

What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

— John Hampden

Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity

— Evo Morales

We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or…

— Michael Pollan

Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we…

— Margaret Beckett

If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy…

— Martin O'Malley

“As Bosteels argues, to invoke the communist horizon is to produce "a complete shift in perspective or a radical ideologi­ cal turnabout,…

— Anonymous

In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like…

— Adam Smith

The economy is most important. It is off track.

— Donna Brazile

Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics…

— Christina Romer

“Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger, and it benefits our entire economy.”

— Seth Godin

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.

— Tibor Kalman

We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden - a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the…

— Dick Morris