The only thing worse than being exploited by capitalism is not being exploited by capitalism. — Joan Robinson 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
With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic. — Kenneth E. Boulding 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
If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it. — Lewis Goldberg Copy Share Image
Tonight, after a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
With free market and free man, if you remove one of them, it is not called capitalism in my dictionary. — Li Lu Copy Share Image
“Inflation creates bubble and burst. That develops world economy, and will destroy it too.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Democracy, we now know, is more than periodic elections in some countries, such elections have been used to legitimize essentially authoritarian regimes… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Brexit and Trump have brought the problems of capitalism into sharp relief, but both are only making things worse. Take the investment… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
I walked into an international economics tutorial, and the professor said, 'I don't know how to teach a woman.' I said, 'It's… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
The Russian economy is tanking. It's gotten so bad that today Vladimir Putin had to pawn his stolen Super Bowl ring. And… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
The utility of a language as a tool of thought increases with the range of topics it can treat, but decreases with… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction… — Diane Coyle Copy Share Image
We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden - a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Reagonomics - a blend of monetarism and fiscal Keynesianism swathed in classical liberal and supply-side rhetoric - is in no way going… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they… — William Greider Copy Share Image
We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
We can talk about the economy, we can talk about Social Security. The biggest problem this world has is nuclear proliferation. And… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real world. Economists, by and large,… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
“The problem is that while some incentives are obvious, many aren’t. And simply asking people what they want or need doesn’t necessarily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[There is] no direct relationship between IQ and economic opportunity. In the supposed interests of fairness and “social justice”, the natural relationship… — Christopher Langan Copy Share Image
We believe that the infrastructure of our care economy is something to take very seriously. — Brian Deese Copy Share Image
We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
“No credit--no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.” — Solomon Northrup Copy Share Image
The future is female, so women are invited, as they do, to take responsability in the world of politics, in the economics,… — Gaetano Pesce Copy Share Image
The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged, — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
We shouldn't measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology. — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of… — Susan George Copy Share Image
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
The rich did well under Obama's policies; it was the working class that got creamed. This was because the economy just wouldn't… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
If the economy is bad, I might be bringing a lot of things in, but it's difficult to sell, and the opposite… — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
The best way to improve economic prospects for women is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image