Economics Quotes · Page 277

We are focused on Main Street, on supporting economic conditions - plentiful jobs and stable prices - that help all Americans.

— Janet Yellen

“Many find in sex and economics the meaning of life and the reason of it all. The consequence of this is that…

— Sachindra Kumar Majumdar

The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic…

— Milton Friedman

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by…

— Ludwig von Mises

Many bought into the idea that America could go from a technology-based, export-oriented powerhouse to a services-led, consumption-based economy - and somehow…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce…

— Camille Paglia

The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Misguided economic and tax policies have hampered growth, allowing the rich to become richer while turning the middle class into the working…

— Anthony Scaramucci

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from…

— George Bernard Shaw

Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only…

— Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

“Nothing is more evident than that modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both…

— Julius Evola

If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world.

— David Harvey

Vermont farmers are contributing to our economy and keeping our landscape beautiful and productive.

— Phil Scott

I went to college as an economics major because that was the easiest major that could still please your Asian parents, and…

— Jimmy O. Yang

“The task of the economist is not merely, as in equilibrium theory, to examine the logical consistency of various modes of action,…

— Ludwig Lachmann

For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has…

— Robert Kuttner

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated…

— Henrik Ibsen

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

Every single human being is creative and maximizing that creativity is critical to happiness and economic growth. Economic growth is driven by…

— Richard Florida

Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will…

— David Harvey

[Obama White House] rescued the economy from the worst recession.

— Rahm Emanuel

I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Until you separate the speculative behaviour of the financial sector from the real economy and the financing of the real economy, then…

— Sharan Burrow

Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism,…

— Eric Hobsbawm

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality…

— Paul Wellstone