Economics Quotes · Page 136

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

— Calvin Coolidge

If you get the government off our back, there's no economy in the world that can create more jobs in the long-term…

— Ryan Zinke

If you grow that economy, you increase the tax base, you increase the revenue that you can spend on anti-poverty measures.

— Humza Yousaf

For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the…

— Lech Walesa

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.

— Howard Warren Buffett

Economic growth tends to require the taking of resources from the Earth. So something has to change on a debt-based economy.

— Gail Bradbrook

For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would…

— Mohamed El-Erian

The idea of a non-growing economy may be an anathema to an economist. But the idea of a continually growing economy is…

— Tim Jackson

“Economic theory would tell you that a rational person would take the thirty dollars every time. Forget the other party, the decision…

— Douglas E. Richards

“The science called ‘economics’ is based on an initial act of abstraction that consists in dissociating a particular category of practices, or…

— Pierre Bourdieu

Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly,…

— Henry George

There are two ways to think about the one percent - the Bernie Sanders way, where we're all competing for a zero-sum…

— Edward Conard

The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people…

— Mahbub ul Haq

Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit…

— Iain Duncan Smith

We are a great capitalist society, that works most of the time. We do need to take better care of our people…

— James A. Champy

“The American share of the crisis began with grossly improper mortgages provided to wholly unqualified borrowers, all directly caused and encouraged by…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

Anyone who studies the energy predicament understands its connection with the operations of capital - and by this I do not mean…

— James Howard Kunstler

“Back in Ancient Greece when Xenophon first posed the economic question, ‘How should a household best manage its resources?’ he was literally…

— Kate Raworth

“[T]he just society is one in which each man may seek the things which belong to his nature. By contrast, a system…

— Russell Kirk

“Naturally, the type of dual economy articulated in Verwoerd’s speech is rather different from Lewis’s dual economy theory. In South Africa the…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is…

— Jeffrey Tucker

In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.

— Walter E. Williams

“Today the topic is not that of survival, but of the maintenance of a workable economic system in societies which are in…

— Isabel Gonzalez Turmo

Making films take a lot of intelligence and is tough, though achieving Economics honours is tough, too.

— Parineeti Chopra

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Economics as a discipline has in effect become the study of capitalism. The two are taken as the same subject.

— John Lanchester

“Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics.”

— Daniel H. Pink

“The Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s….ten years from now, the phrase “information economy” will…

— Paul Krugman

Once you start thinking about growth of economy, it's hard to think about anything else.

— Chris Hayes

Games are work. There are economies popping up in games now because people value them.

— Jane McGonigal

Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It’s a terrific lesson in economy and precession.

— Darynda Jones

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

— Milton Friedman

We need to invest in our people and a livable planet if we want to build an economy that works for everyone.

— Jamaal Bowman

Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

— Helen Keller

Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.

— Milton Friedman

Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.

— Adam Davidson

Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis…

— Joseph Stalin