The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association… — Jim Keith Copy Share Image
There's a joke in economics about the drunk who loses his keys in the street but only looks for them under the… — Christina Romer 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
Obviously, the domestic need is to shape an economic policy that assures long-term healthy economic growth and a reassertion of American competitiveness… — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
It took the national debt two hundred years to reach $1 trillion. Supply Side Economics quadrupled the national debt to over $4… — Ed Schultz Copy Share Image
The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
In the interests of competitiveness in a globalizing world economy, governments of all complexions introduced labour-market reforms that promoted flexibility but accentuated… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“In nineteenth century Europe (and later in other parts of the world) the transition from a subsistence to a market economy based… — Eleanor Burke Leacock Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see it, this ghastly mode of society’s economic organization has brought… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The economic reality is that, thanks to smart machines and global trade, the well-paying, middle-class jobs that were the backbone of Western… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
In the past, wage hikes were viewed as a cost factor, but going forward, companies need to invest in people for the… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities — David Landes Copy Share Image
A nation's economic salvation does not lie in the amount of money its rich inhabitants can squander recklessly. A nation's economic salvation… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, let’s embrace an economic patriotism… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We use our land for hunting, fishing, hiking, and to create jobs. Our outdoor economy is a billion dollar economic engine for… — Ryan Zinke Copy Share Image
“The only way to sustain this world economy is by changing its definition.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether… — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
The managers of the big brands have a very clear responsibility. It's attracting and keeping talented people in order to sustain and… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Trends such as skills imbalances, the gig economy, and digitization are transforming work so quickly that policy creation is lagging behind. — Alain Dehaze Copy Share Image
“That economics has a considerable conceptual apparatus with an appropriate terminology can not be a serious ground for complaint. Economic phenomena, ideas,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Competition is the hallmark of a free enterprise economy. For the past thirty years, however, corporate America has been doing everything it… — Lou Dobbs Copy Share Image
There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Initially, terrorism was a certain mixture of politics, economics, and religion. Now, it seems that terrorism is more individual and done to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“The system, in its irrationality, has been driven by profit to build steel skyscrapers for insurance companies while the cities decay, to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
