Economics Quotes · Page 92

Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

— David Suzuki

“An economics of systems only-an economics of markets but not of men-is fatally flawed.”

— George Gilder

We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification.

— Sharron Angle

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

— Herbert Hoover

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

— Sergei Eisenstein

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

In economic terms, a kiss is a commodity for which demand is always higher than supply

— Anonymous

“How you think and create your inner world that you gonna become in your outer world. Your inner believe manifest you in…

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

Politicians have patronised and talked down to us all when it comes to our economy, but ordinary working people have to manage…

— John McDonnell

The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics…

— Michael Pollan

“Go home now,” says I. “Keep away from the saloons. Save your money. You are going to need it.” “What are we…

— Jerry Ash

[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But,…

— Charles Fort

“It [predatory capitalism] is incapable of meeting human needs that can be expressed only in collective terms, and its concept of competitive…

— Noam Chomsky

Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange - there could have been no development of economies beyond…

— Peter Dicken

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive…

— Albert Einstein

“You have to distinguish between two things – the Swedish economy and the Swedish stock market. The Swedish economy is the sum…

— Stieg Larsson

What the issue here is, you get rid of all the conservative orthodoxy about capital gains, marginal tax rate, supply side economics,…

— Chris Hayes

Cuts in a sector are never going to be welcomed, and arts funding cut by up to 30% doesn't make nice reading.…

— Roxanne Emery

“Consequently, even many critics of economic inequality are hesitant to endorse the claim that inequality undermines growth. Paul Krugman, for instance, says…

— Don Watkins

What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic consequences of…

— Ernesto Zedillo

“The justification of capitalism is not that the economy grows faster than it grows under any other system ... not that the…

— M. Northrup Buechner

Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that…

— Robert H. Jackson

“Economics itself offers a parallel that explains why this integration affects creativity. Clay Christensen has written about the “Innovator’s Dilemma”: the fact…

— Lawrence Lessig

China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.

— Virginia Foxx

“Only one thing can allow a business to transcend the daily brute struggle for survival: monopoly profits.”

— Peter Thiel

You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

— Stephen Covey

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

— Harold MacMillan

Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of…

— Barry Ritholtz

I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.

— Molly Quinn

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

— David Korten

“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.”

— Ludwig von Mises

We are strong believers in the growth prospects of the Indonesian economy, its positive consumer demographic trends and the growth of its…

— Haim Saban

I want to talk about jobs, the economy, foreclosures. I want to talk about energy prices.

— Dean Heller

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.”

— Stafford Beer

Money, amazingly, is losing its power... Our economy is rapidly changing from a money economy to a satisfaction economy.

— Martin Seligman

Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling…

— Mariano Rajoy

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

— Edmund Burke