Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
I had this thesis that we had entered the experience economy. People were getting married later and starting to value experiences like… — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We've suffered a 'Ponzification' of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Misguided economic and tax policies have hampered growth, allowing the rich to become richer while turning the middle class into the working… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy with its own value creation, not unlike the Web's own economy.… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
“Microeconomics concerns things that economists are specifically wrong about, while macroeconomics concerns things economists are wrong about generally. P. J. O’ROURKE, Eat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't think the western world is questioning capitalism. Capitalism as a concept is not something that society has written off. But… — Kumar Mangalam Birla Copy Share Image
The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
Government intervention in the economy - through taxes, regulation and, most importantly, currency inflation - causes distortions and misallocations of capital that… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
“So, when free-market economists say that a certain regulation should not be introduced because it would restrict the ‘freedom’ of a certain… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“The “food system,” according to Professor Shaw, now uses 16.5 percent of all energy used in the United States. This 16.5 percent… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Investors want to know how exposed a business is to climate change. The physical risks to Tesco are clear, but could be… — Terry Leahy Copy Share Image
“The political perspective of this book, ironically, is the progeny of the progressive potential of capitalism as an historical system. The joint… — Samuel Bowles Copy Share Image
“there is enormous value in what economists call social capital. It’s a professor’s term, but the concept is pretty simple: The networks… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image