To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I had the offer of places at Leicester and Loughborough to study financial economics. — Chris Smalling Copy Share Image
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion. — James Heckman Copy Share Image
China's economic transformation began with the introduction in the 1980s of market incentives in the agricultural sector. These reforms were followed by… — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
So you could have a very institutionally well-developed economy that's still very low in terms of its technological success. That would be… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
I'll be a president that will turn our inner cities around and will give strength to people and will give economics to… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We have an economic policy that is just about 10,000 years out of date. — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
President Obama's assault on the free-enterprise market and venture capitalists is anti-American and shows his greatest insecurity: his lack of private sector… — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
The lesson of global economic integration is that free trade is to some degree in tension with free markets. — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
There is an alternative to terror. It is called, in the political order, democracy. In the economic order, it is called the… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
The single market is unique among international trade agreements. It eliminates 100 per cent of tariffs on all goods. Not even the… — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing… — David Korten Copy Share Image
A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists - they are too damn greedy. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support. — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Since 2008 you've had the largest bond market rally in history, as the Federal Reserve flooded the economy with quantitative easing to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I do fear that global capitalism is making us more like each other in regrettable ways, e.g., more people are increasingly captivated… — David Wong Copy Share Image
I don't think money can be understood through a lens limited to economics. And most books about money tell you the history… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation. — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
