Poverty is not an accident of, sort of, an economic spreadsheet. Poverty is a crime. There are criminals involved. And those criminals… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the economics of reproduction, who gets what they want when it comes to childbearing and how these… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“The most important economy, the only reasonable one, is to make life pleasant for all, because the man who is satisfied with… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's… — Henry Kravis Copy Share Image
“But if all maximizing models are really arguing is that “people will always seek to maximize something,” then they obviously can’t predict… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
Capitalism improves the quality of life for the working class not just because it leads to improved wages but also because it… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
“The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
“Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
As a businessman, Donald Trump has been associated with some of the worst excesses of a particular style of value-extracting and asset… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
To look at long term trends in our economy, in our society, in the international sphere and using my best judgment, shape… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Capitalism, so called, is when free people accumulate capital of their own free will for use on freely determined projects. The fact… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“If trickle-down economics worked, we would not have four food banks in Kensington and Chelsea.” — Emma Dent Coad Copy Share Image
There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to. — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
American economy is tricky. If you stay in the game you're in a good position for the upswing. If you're not in… — Farrah Gray Copy Share Image
We can use economic instruments to help realize our goals but economics does not tell us what our goals should be. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
“In arguing against free enterprise capitalism, the collectivist always adopts the false assumption of a fixed number of jobs in that system.… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
An economy may be in equilibrium from a short-period point of view and yet contain within itself incompatibilities that are soon going… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
[The consumer is] the supreme mover of economic order... for whom all goods are made and towards whom all economic activity is… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war. — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
“Feminists know that if women are paid equal wages for equal work, women will gain sexual as well as economic independence. But… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Even the most well-meaning government policies have unintended consequences that have harmed the economy. If government policies were today held accountable the… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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
“It is irrelevant to the entrepreneur, as the servant of the consumers, whether the wishes and wants of the consumers are wise… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image