The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and… — Alan Abelson Copy Share Image
Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“Here’s the solution. We need a CO2 tax, revenue-neutral, to replace taxation on employment, which was invented by Bismarck — and some… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We are in for a fiesta of default, repossession, and distress selling of suburban property, much of which will lose its presumed… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It's hard to fathom the psychology of the economics of art. I don't quite understand it, and I don't necessarily want to… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a… — Martin Shubik Copy Share Image
economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
We have views on social issues that may seem to some that we are hard-line Tories. However our economics policies and our… — Steve Blake Copy Share Image
Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Independently owned restaurants and small businesses are the backbone of our local economies. — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
“Economics has gained the title Queen of the Social Sciences by choosing solved political problems as its domain.” — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you should be comfortable and… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning? The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants? — Robert Solow Copy Share Image
The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people? — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Inflation takes from the ignorant and gives to the well informed. — Venita VanCaspel Copy Share Image
As a former economy minister, I can't not think about economic growth. The central bank should also think about this but through… — Elvira Nabiullina Copy Share Image
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The dictator has to keep the economy functioning in order to keep stealing from it.” — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
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