Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder. — James Maxton Copy Share Image
Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits. — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
Nations that use commodity capitalism as a stepping-stone to a mixed economy based on commodity/intellectual capitalism will most likely become rich. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Given the current state of our finances, we could sure use a quarter of a trillion dollars a year recycling through the… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
You figure out, what is the crucial issue facing the country right now? And for Trump, it was that the global economy… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Whether we understand work spiritually depends in large part on whether we understand the economy spiritually. If we view the economy materialistically,… — Greg Forster Copy Share Image
“It is certainly true that imitation is everywhere, from sport to business, from dancing to dressing, from driving to singing. In fact,… — Michele Boldrin Copy Share Image
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Life is about means not ends. There is no utopia to be gained, there is no end-state that is static and eternal,… — Carne Ross Copy Share Image
Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“This points to a nagging and important question about free-market ideologues: Are they ‘true believers’, driven by ideology and faith that free… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I find it very difficult to relate to India's new middle class. This very patriotic and neoliberal group that mixes religion and… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
Many people have written about the economic meaning of globalization; in One World Peter Singer explains its moral meaning. His position is… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope,… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo,… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
“Dirty secret of e-commerce, majority generate 6-8% in net revenue but 8-10% in direct cost, 10-18% in Marketing & 2-3% in indirect.… — Sandeep Aggarwal Copy Share Image
You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians. — Robert P. Murphy Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump’s economic policies are geared toward enriching White male power—but at the expense of most of his White male followers, along… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I believe the power of Economics is to help provide a unique lens for looking at the world. — Russ Roberts Copy Share Image
“But to the modern mind, resonating with different media-metaphors, the truth in economics is believed to be best discovered and expressed in… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
Before 'Life of Pi,' I wanted to do economics. And now, I realize how bad a mistake that would have been. I… — Suraj Sharma Copy Share Image
Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“modern economies have developed ways of avoiding costs or passing them on that effectively remove the sanctions from dishonest or manipulative behaviour.… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
