Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
[I want] a one-armed scientist ... [Who would not qualify his advice with 'on the other hand...'] — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
We have a basic notion that unless we find a solution for environmental problems, we will not achieve sustainable growth in the… — Hiroyuki Watanabe Copy Share Image
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The engineer who counts cost as nothing as compared to the result, who holds himself above the consideration of dollars and cents,… — Coleman Sellers II Copy Share Image
In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed. — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
We need to make clear that the economic crisis has to be matched by a crisis of ideas. That's the problem, right?… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“Comradeship, dignity, amorosity, love, solidarity, fraternity, friendship, ethics: all these names stand in contrast to the commodified, monetised relations of capitalism, all… — John Holloway Copy Share Image
“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Like all major transitions in human history, the shift from a linear to a circular economy will be a tumultuous one. It… — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Some of the most serious fallacies of traditional economics have been due to confusion between optimum and equilibrium conditions; the apparent influence… — Sir John Richard Hicks Copy Share Image
“Modern society is incredibly complex, complex even beyond human comprehension, if we grant its premises—property, "production for the sake of production," competition,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I don't have too much interest in teaching other people how to get rich. And that isn't because I fear the competition… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We love a world in which the people in the white hats get rewarded and the people in the black hats pay… — Rebecca M. Blank Copy Share Image
There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
If we don't concentrate on resurrecting science, we're not going to be able to compete in a global economy. — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
Every day, every week without taking decisions is a problem for us, is a very wrong message for the markets and increases… — Jose Maria Aznar Copy Share Image
Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdi-vided,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in… — James Meade Copy Share Image
A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
“Talent, just like gold or any other precious commodity is subject to the same demand & supply economics” — Gyan Nagpal Copy Share Image
As long as there are big corporations, there will be big unions. The economic power of big business will be matched by… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Where people are now in terms of the economic crisis, they're looking at what we think is the bottom, and I think… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
Every success story in this country was because of capitalism. Everything we're doing. Look at my story. It couldn't be done. — Mike Lindell Copy Share Image
It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image