Economics Quotes · Page 56

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

— Anonymous

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

— Robert McNamara

We need to decarbonise our societies and economies.

— Sharan Burrow

Before economics can progress, it must abandon its suicidal formalism.

— Robert Heilbroner

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

— James Dale Davidson

The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me.

— Armand Assante

Economic mobility will fix income inequality.

— Joe Sestak

Economic inequality is systemic, and one of the most effective barriers is ignorance about how money works beyond the basics.

— Stacey Abrams

Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It's a misallocation of resources.

— Mick Mulvaney

The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.

— Immanuel Wallerstein

It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop…

— David Harsanyi

America has much to gain in terms of jobs and trade by meeting the growing world demand for advanced, environmentally sound technologies.

— John McCain

In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most people find themselves doing more things less well…

— Tina Brown

An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

— William Nordhaus

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

— Susan George

“capitalism is for Karatani not a ‘pure’ reign of B, but a triad (or, rather, a Borromean knot) of nation–state–capital: nation as…

— Slavoj Žižek

What is the upside of inequality? I would say that it's a deep pool of properly trained, highly motivated talent that is…

— Edward Conard

In the future, every industry should be an environmental industry. In a world where energy and carbon emissions are constrained, every business…

— David Miliband

You're having government spending on the economy being cut almost everywhere. That means that the only source of spending for growth has…

— Michael Hudson

An overheating economy, characterized by accelerating inflation and rising interest rates, is another precondition for recession. This doesn't describe today's economy.

— Mark Zandi

What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things"…

— Richard A. Falk

Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public…

— Joan Konner

The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported…

— Joan Robinson

What appeals to me in The Deuce is some of the same things that made me interested in The Wire, which is…

— David Simon

“In the market economy the consumers are supreme. Consumers determine, by their buying or abstention from buying, what should be produced, by…

— Ludwig Von Mises

Let’s summarize. What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they…

— Umair Haque

“As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate…

— Tony Judt

“The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole machine out there, an organized…

— Paul Krugman

Any money the government spends must be taxed, borrowed or conjured out of thin air by the Federal Reserve, and that will…

— John Stossel

We know that global capitalism, and the commercially driven culture that comes with it, can be a powerful solvent, but many of…

— David Wong

I made an effort to ensure social safeguards. But our economy has to grow - and Chile, with a population of 17…

— Michelle Bachelet

Santander gives you a unique opportunity to invest in the U.K. economy.

— Ana Patricia Botin

The free economy is not the enemy but the friend of social capital.

— Ted Malloch

We want to see huge growth in this economy in small- and medium-sized businesses.

— Steve Mnuchin

“Without improvement in education, how can the economics of the world improve?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Change the economic base and you will change human beings.

— Karl Marx

Everybody is talking today about the economy.

— Joschka Fischer

Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.

— Olaf Stapledon

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright