Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
The goal of socialism is a fairer allocation of economic resources, which its advocates often claim will also be a less wasteful… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Capitalism would self-destruct in no time. So the business classes have always demanded strong, straight intervention to protect the society from the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But we are 100%… — Edward Whitacre, Jr Copy Share Image
Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base… — Walter Block Copy Share Image
Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Some people say 'what would happen if we had a Communist Chancellor of the Exchequer?' I would ask in reply, 'what would… — Hugh Dalton Copy Share Image
Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“Whether we understand work spiritually depends in large part on whether we understand the economy spiritually. If we view the economy materialistically,… — Greg Forster Copy Share Image
One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
“The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By using the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“When it comes down to it, what are being traded in a capitalist economy are property rights—the ownership rights in goods and… — Thomas J. DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse - the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
An important instrument of economic policy-making in a market economy is credible, consistent, and timely communication. — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
