The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer… — John Berger Copy Share Image
In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
“Government in and of itself is the foremost agent for destroying order and imposing chaos." "To accept the legitimacy of the state… — L.K. Samuels Copy Share Image
To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility,… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The theory of the IRS is rather repugnant to me because the assumption is made that I, the government, owns 100% of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis.… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it… — Terry McAuliffe Copy Share Image
In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It’s not that I want to punish your success. I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Economic theory would tell you that a rational person would take the thirty dollars every time. Forget the other party, the decision… — Douglas E. Richards Copy Share Image
Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting.… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people… — Mahbub ul Haq Copy Share Image
There are two ways to think about the one percent - the Bernie Sanders way, where we're all competing for a zero-sum… — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The science called ‘economics’ is based on an initial act of abstraction that consists in dissociating a particular category of practices, or… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and… — Rick Larsen Copy Share Image
“The best organizations and the ones that survive economic tsunamis are those with emphatic cultures and managers who are able to step… — Dev Patnaik Copy Share Image
One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral system in the eighth grade and thinking,… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
