The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve. [...] Profits and prices are the street signs of… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
There are two issues that people sometimes confuse, but they're very closely related. There is the strength and the stability of the… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
“[There is] no direct relationship between IQ and economic opportunity. In the supposed interests of fairness and “social justice”, the natural relationship… — Christopher Langan Copy Share Image
People tend to be clueless about prices. Contrary to economic theory, we don't really decide between A and B by consulting our… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of… — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
As Muslims, we are all equals, we abide by the laws and we understand that we have to be active citizens wherever… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Since the inauguration of Mr. Lee Myung-bak, I was very much disappointed with his politics and policies. Not only in economics, but… — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I see incredible examples of communities that have a vision for transportation and how it will impact the quality… — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else... — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
With economic opportunity, sometimes it's making sure that if they're not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
“In Keynes’s time, physicists were first grappling with the concept of quantum mechanics, which, among other things, imagined a cosmos governed by… — Peter D. Schiff Copy Share Image
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK,… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
“Challenging the earlier economists of his day, Marx was keen to show how the products of capitalism did not just magically appear,… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
“It is very important to concentrate on hitting the U.S. economy through all means possible” — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
[M]any females would, even assuming complete economic equality between the sexes, prefer residing with males or peddling their asses on the street,… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
“We must challenge corruption - only then we can be in a position to break the vicious cycle of economic inequality and… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image