The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Creating investment, growing the economy and creating jobs is what this government wants to do. — Peter Gutwein Copy Share Image
“COVID has momentarily changed our economic anchor, creating time and space for us to care about people and planet before profit” — Richard Hodge Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“First, capitalism has created a world that nobody but a capitalist is capable of running. The only serious attempt to manage the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Then, madam, they do nothing.” Albert Einstein once said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people:… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
The point is, there's this new sense of skepticism and questioning toward tech, even if it is pretty inchoate. What I hope… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Free trade has been proven, time and again, as a reliable path to economic development. It pushes the public and private sectors… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Political monopoly and economic monopoly are two sides of the same coin, two heads of the same monster. Despite all the claims… — Robert Dickson Crane Copy Share Image
“The ability to discount darker people and darker nations in order to justify stealing their land and labor was foundational, and none… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“An economy built on slave labor is vulnerable in two ways. One, availability of forced labor discourages technical innovation. The very wealthy… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities,… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Our real interest starts with our neighbors... the future is about regional economies. — Jean Charest Copy Share Image
In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.” — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets. — Maria Cantwell Copy Share Image
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities. — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
In economics, 'competitiveness' does not describe Barack Obama's insistence on not only being president of the U.S. but also beating his staff… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
My interest in economics just basically comes because I think I'm a curious person, and I'm interested in how the world works. — Kane Copy Share Image
What needs to be kept in mind is both that capitalism is a hyper-abstract impersonal structure and that it would be nothing… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us.… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image