“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine the can design.” — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The migration to more of a developer-powered economy is actually truer to our vision, which is a platform for user-generated content driven… — David Baszucki Copy Share Image
More people are working, lending is up and savings are up. These are all positive signs for a strengthening economy. — Jamie Dimon 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
If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. — Judi Bari Copy Share Image
Meaningful solutions to the problems of mass poverty that prevails in India I believe can only be found in the framework of… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
The great problem with corporate capitalism is that publicly owned companies have short time horizons. Unlike a privately owned business, the top… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
The seminar in economic theory conducted by Hayek at the L.S.E. in the 1930s was attended, it came to seem, by all… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Economic institutions that create incentives for economic progress may simultaneously redistribute income and power in such a way that a predatory dictator… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
The way we get past capitalism is by building on the healthy non-capitalist aspects of our world while we also do pitched… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
“This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a… — Ian Smillie Copy Share Image
“It suffices here to say that the planned economy which the advocates of dictatorship wish to set up is precisely as socialistic… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“At the same time, however, the necessity for economic change in our countries has led us to conceive laws and accept traditions… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It… — Augustin Thierry Copy Share Image
I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“From the daily battles against the employers and their allies, the workers gradually learn the deeper meaning of this struggle. At first… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry. — Jim Fowler Copy Share Image
“Ben Bernanke is like an economist on a misty morning, because he hasn’t the foggiest clue.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Making our economy more sustainable, productive and fair means upgrading the way people from all backgrounds and zip codes access jobs, goods,… — Jake Auchincloss Copy Share Image
If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class.… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man. — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
[The 1975 Chase Econometrics] showed that for every one dollar spent on Apollo, 14 came back into the U.S. economy. — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Private equity investors are an integral part of the economy and should be celebrated for making our country wealthier. — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
Benefits of demonetisation need to percolate down to entrepreneurs and their enterprises, many of which are outside the ambit of formal economy. — Smriti Irani Copy Share Image
Main Street versus Wall Street was the 2008 economic mantra of Democrat Barack Obama. — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image