As the economy turns, one of the most significant impediments to economic growth is going to be labor availability. — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man. — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
Responsible people work, earn, save, invest, make things better for self & family. Lefties call that "greed." — Philip Schuyler Copy Share Image
The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Issues are won based upon whether or not you can keep this economy strong; elections are won based upon economic issues and… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The quality of economists cannot be measured … by the nature of the economic life which surrounds them, but only by the… — Emil kauder Copy Share Image
As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when they spend… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Among minor alterations, I may mention the substitution for the name political economy of the single convenient term economics. I cannot help… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“. . . it is a mistake to think that Marxism is simply a type of interpretation that takes the economic "sequence"… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Many of the deficiencies of our economic system could be alleviated if ways were found to broaden the ownership of the means… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
One other thing: at the meeting in Canada, [there was] the coup in Fiji. This comes to an important part of the… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Feudalism is an economic system where a few people own all the land and the others have no option but to be… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials. — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
One big theme for me is that we have got to move from an economy built on debt to one where we… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality… — Paul Wellstone Copy Share Image
“By the fall of 1918, it was clear that a nation's prosperity, even its very survival, depended on securing a safe, abundant… — Albert Marrin Copy Share Image
Capitalism - for the record - has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world. — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
For the majority of Americans, collectivist or nationalized economy is morally wrong and therefore unjust. For them, free enterprise meets their keen… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is… — Paul Heyne Copy Share Image