Economics Quotes · Page 67

If you want to learn real economics instead of neoliberal junk economics, read Michael Hudson's books.

— Paul Craig Roberts

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

— Joseph Campbell

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

— Gale Norton

Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need.

— Melissa Bean

I think people are very focused on the economic issues. They want an economy that works for everybody.

— Tim Kaine

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

— Walter E. Williams

How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

— Jim Rohn

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time…

— Pete Holiday

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions…

— Jeffrey Sachs

We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We…

— Jennifer Granholm

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political,…

— William Pfaff

I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run…

— Glenn Beck

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and…

— Frank Chodorov

Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left…

— Frances O'Grady

Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand…

— Ludwig von Mises

“And so the catastrophe of 1929–33 did to the certainties of laissez-faire economics what science did to nineteenth-century religion and what the…

— Thomas Frank

“If an economy has a stagnant labor force operating at a constant level of productivity, it will have constant output but no…

— James Rickards

“The South African state created a dual economy, preventing 80 percent of the population from taking part in skilled occupations, commercial farming,…

— Daron Acemoğlu

First reason is, it's not authorized in the Constitution, it's an illegal institution. The second reason, it's an immoral institution, because we…

— Ron Paul

I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

If we assume that the purpose of the economy is to serve and improve the welfare of the entire body of citizens,…

— Edward S. Herman

There was a time traditionally - say, GM in the 1950s - it was trying to develop a consumer base that would…

— Noam Chomsky

As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a…

— Bill Gates

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

— Simon Newcomb

[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

— James Grant

America still is the center of the world, and what happens in the American economy matters everywhere.

— Martin Amis

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

— John Derbyshire

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

— Ben Horowitz

Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at…

— Rick Aster

Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism.

— Murray Rothbard

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

— David Harvey

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

— John McCain

A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. [State of the Union Address January 11 1962] ”

— John F. Kennedy

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

— Chester Barnard

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

— Geraldine Ferraro

“Crying about the economy is a strategy. It won’t get you a job, but it will keep Kleenex in business.”

— Jarod Kintz

“nineteenth century economic development was "the development of continents instead of coast lines."98”

— Thomas Sowell

We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet.

— Molly Ivins