Economics Quotes · Page 69

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25…

— Agnes Smedley

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

— Anonymous

I'm not political, but I am policy-oriented and I am interested in the right moves for our economy, for our nation; but…

— Trish Regan

history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to…

— Helen Foster Snow

If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start…

— Robert H. Frank

Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.

— George W. Bush

The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

This economic pie that is getting ready to explode before our eyes is going to be shared equally.

— Ray Nagin

Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would…

— Liz Truss

I have been interested in visual arts since high school and, after realising that I had absolutely no interest in the economics…

— Patricia Piccinini

“Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of…

— Joel Miller

Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds, insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. Just…

— Ronald Wright

The economy Labour wants to build is one where everyone has a secure job with wages they can raise a family on,…

— Rachel Reeves

The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to…

— Walter E. Williams

A politically astute president who understood deeply the economics and politics of corporate tax reform could conceivably muscle Congress toward a reform…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“Wealth acquired by creating value for society is not equivalent to wealth that comes from economic rents. For example, a very important…

— Jean Tirole

An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the…

— John Hospers

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

Globalization, meaning the global expansion of a market economy, is the only way we can guarantee widespread prosperity and peace. A lot…

— Douglas Massey

“This points to a nagging and important question about free-market ideologues: Are they ‘true believers’, driven by ideology and faith that free…

— Naomi Klein

Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such…

— Audre Lorde

The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then…

— Murray Rothbard

“Life is about means not ends. There is no utopia to be gained, there is no end-state that is static and eternal,…

— Carne Ross

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of…

— Lester R. Brown

The term 'business cycle' is imprecise. Economic fluctuations affect everyone, not just businesses, and they are, unlike astral cycles, anything but regular.

— Kevin Hassett

Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy…

— Jack Ma

“general observation for joining the ranks of winners in our economy: If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or…

— Cal Newport

If we decide, we can change the pitiable condition of Indian economy. We have to take up the responsibility and show commitment.

— Narendra Modi

In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.

— G. H. Hardy

In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result…

— Sheldon Richman

Academic economists have consistently discredited themselves by wrongly warning against the policies of President Trump.

— Scott Bessent

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits

— John F. Kennedy

When it comes to economy, my district is the fourth largest concentration of manufacturing jobs of any district in the entire country.

— Brad Schneider

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

— Anonymous

Establishment idiots say the Trump tax cuts only helped the rich. Don't they understand anything about economics?

— Steve Hilton

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the…

— Ron Chernow

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual…

— Gordon Brown

The economy is after all driven by people. No matter how dire the situation may be, as long as people are firm,…

— Daisaku Ikeda

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

— Thomas Jefferson