Economics Quotes · Page 132

Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

— David Harvey

The truth of the matter is, the policies of this administration, which Hillary Clinton and Senator Kaine want to continue, have run…

— Mike Pence

Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort…

— Tyler Cowen

Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.

— Ludwig von Mises

If you want a more productive economy, you need to invest in the skills of our workforce.

— Jeremy Corbyn

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system.

— George Gilder

People who know what is good for other people all the time are as big a menace in our society as the…

— May Hobbs

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the…

— Tavis Smiley

Economics, as it has emerged, can be made more productive by paying greater and more explicit attention to the ethical considerations that…

— Amartya Sen

“Economics is not a true description of one kind of action but an abstract, arbitrary, and therefore erroneous description of all action;…

— R. G. Collingwood

I think what they've been doing is largely almost in firefighting mode without a good conceptual framework - either at the micro…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Capitalism in and of itself is based on the monetising of human labour, and the first evidence of that is slavery. And…

— Asia Kate Dillon

When the economy's shrinking, providing jobs, spending on things like infrastructure can actually increase revenue and drive down debt. And then, there's…

— Barack Obama

Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew…

— John Stuart Mill

Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because…

— Harrison Salisbury

The people who run the country have enormous influence over the culture, politics, and the economics of the country. And increasingly, they…

— Charles Murray

The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of…

— Ayn Rand

Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world.…

— Bill Gates

“A wealth of research confirms the importance of face-to-face contact. One experiment performed by two researchers at the University of Michigan challenged…

— Edward L. Glaeser

“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but…

— Glenn Greenwald

The government must nurture an eco-system where the economy is primed for growth; and growth promotes all-rounddevelopment. Where development is employment-generating ;…

— Narendra Modi

“Overborrowing or overlending? Lenders encourage indebtedness because it is profitable. Developing country governments are sometimes even pressured to overborrow ... Even without…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

“If the world were full of the self-seeking individuals found in economics textbooks, it would grind to a halt because we would…

— Ha-Joon Chang

I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where…

— Annia Ciezadlo

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

— Denis Healey

Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.

— Thomas Woods

The European economy is collapsing! The trans-Atlantic region is a disaster area in terms of economy.

— Lyndon LaRouche

President Trump is growing the economy, growing our jobs market, creating new value in the stock market.

— Trish Regan

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can pray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your…

— Jeremy Rifkin

Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be…

— Enrique Penalosa

You don't see black people winning Nobel prizes for physics or economics or any of the industries or institutions that shape the…

— Kerry James Marshall

We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say

— G. L. S. Shackle

I'm a capitalist, and I believe that universal basic income is necessary for capitalism to continue.

— Andrew Yang

I am proud to support the incredible economics department at the University of Chicago.

— Kenneth C. Griffin

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

— Henry David Thoreau

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

— Thomas Paine

Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.

— Henry Ford

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

— Fred Barnes

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

— John Patrick Shanley

I think that at some level, people recognize that growing our economy is destroying us. It's destroying us as human beings, it's…

— Grace Lee Boggs