Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states. — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time. — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Companies that start by redesigning the economics of an industry often finish by redesigning the whole industry-and owning it. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“I attribute as much of my success to what I’ve learned about the brain as I do to my understanding of economics… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty. — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used… — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
“Broadly speaking, there are only two ways human beings can make an income: ...by contributing to society or they can extract an… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
Spread the truth-the laws of economics are like the laws of engineering. One set of laws works everywhere. — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
I believe that overall if you want a growing economy what you have got to have is sufficient flexibility to allow that… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
“For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize… — Greg Mankiw Copy Share Image
There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope… — Lars Peter Hansen Copy Share Image
Advanced industrialised economies like ourselves cannot afford to go on growing, particularly if we want to give people in poorer countries a… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
If people are teaching economics, they need to teach all the different disciplines, all the different schools in economics. They can't just… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Thomas Piketty, an economist at the Paris School of Economics, warned in his zeitgeist-shifting book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, that without… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
We can talk about the economy, we can talk about Social Security. The biggest problem this world has is nuclear proliferation. And… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large,… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
“The problem is that while some incentives are obvious, many aren’t. And simply asking people what they want or need doesn’t necessarily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Economy is a way of spending money without getting any pleasure out of it. — Armand Salacrou Copy Share Image
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable. — Joe Manchin Copy Share Image