Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
“Relative to perceived physical wants, the Stone Age economy is an economy of abundance.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now,… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
We have a choice: we can allow the growing disparity between rich and poor to continue unimpeded, or we can take action… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had… — Adam Draper Copy Share Image
The reality is that our economy now consists of driving 250 million vehicles around the suburbs and malls and eating fried chicken.… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public… — James Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household. ... In developed capitalist… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics -… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
One of the major forces driving the decline in wages and the concentration of wealth at the top is the offshoring of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
“I am not a capitalist in the simplistic left/right sense. But I do believe in the power of the global free-market economy… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued… — S. E. Cupp Copy Share Image
I do fear that global capitalism is making us more like each other in regrettable ways, e.g., more people are increasingly captivated… — David Wong Copy Share Image
There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market … What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“Now few people recognize the necessary implications of the economic statements they are constantly making. When they say that the way to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
An important instrument of economic policy-making in a market economy is credible, consistent, and timely communication. — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that capitalism is a tiny period of human society. You never really had capitalism, you always had one or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need… — David Simon Copy Share Image
It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference about the well-being of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism. — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as… — John J. Sweeney Copy Share Image
Economic controversy is generally a thankless task. You cannot hope to make any impression on your opponent. Yet he is the only… — Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Copy Share Image
People who are living in economic struggle are more than their circumstances. They're majestic and creative and beautiful. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I have fun running all the Virgin businesses, so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
