Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The foremost challenge is that of the knowledge revolution. Economic power will depend on creativity and innovation. Creation of wealth will move… — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Copy Share Image
Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
“Under the tutelage of their economic counselors, political leaders manipulate discount rates and the money supply with all the confidence of space… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name. — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I believe capitalism is dying a slow death right now, as you can see with the recession and with the credit crunch… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Here's what I tell people now when they come to my shows: 'First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel. — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science. — Steven F. Hayward Copy Share Image
“Robert Owen’s was a true insight: market economy if left to evolve according to its own laws would create great and permanent… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
“Have you ever played Monopoly? It's a board game designed to teach kids capitalism. And what happens in the end? The winner… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is astonishingly efficient at generating new wealth, but it operates beneficently only when the market is shaped by moral forces coming… — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
“Europe, it is true, is a geographical and, within certain limits, an historical cultural conception. But the idea of Europe as an… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“Talent, just like gold or any other precious commodity is subject to the same demand & supply economics” — Gyan Nagpal Copy Share Image
My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university. — O. T. Fagbenle Copy Share Image
I don't know what it means to manage the human imagination, but I do know that imagination is the main source of… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
