The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against… — G. William Domhoff Copy Share Image
Productive power is the foundation of a country's economic strength. — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
In today's gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by 'portfolios of projects,' most people find themselves doing more things less well… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three. — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
Many of the people I know and that you know are very complex human beings, and it's not all about race. Everything… — Lynn Whitfield Copy Share Image
My clinical psychologist wife of 40 years has always had a close intellectual influence on me. When I was beginning to talk… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
The petty economics of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor — William Feather Copy Share Image
most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the… — David Simon 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
The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
It [eBook] is like introducing the machine gun to a revolutionary war. It changes everything. If you can reach your fans directly… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Economics profession, they've been - they've been confident in various formulas, but economics is not physics. The same formula that works in… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance. — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
We've turned the post-war economy that made America prosperous and rich inside out. Somehow most people believed they could get rich by… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We are headed toward 'perfect capitalism,' when the laws of supply and demand become exact, because everyone knows everything about a product,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The history of the Church has been a history of divisiveness, repression and reaction. For almost 2000 years, Christianity has held mankind… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
[F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Of course, there's been a real debate about where to invest and where to cut, and I'm committed to working with members… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights. — Rudolf Hilferding Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave?” — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on… — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
“provides American business with the only reliable domestic market in the world. Schools train individuals to respond as a mass. Boys and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“Everybody looks at oil and almost entirely forget that the percentage of jobs the oil sector creates is relatively small compared to… — Emi Iyalla Copy Share Image
Most economics that is taught in college and universities today projects itself as a value-neutral science. This claim has always been open… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image