Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences… — Mark Blaug Copy Share Image
Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Some argue shareholder capitalism has proven more efficient. It has moved economic resources to where they're most productive, and thereby enabled the… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Despite massive evidence to the contrary, libertarians hold tight to their romantic concept of capitalism, which, freed from government interference, serves the… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Physicists have a bias to aspire to be "seers" like Einstein rather than "craftspeople" who do simple and practical research. I have… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The new economy requires consumers with spending power – just as the old one did. Yet much like the farmer who eats… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of capitalism anyway. Because it's not capital we are talking about; it's knowledge and creating well-being. Because… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“provides American business with the only reliable domestic market in the world. Schools train individuals to respond as a mass. Boys and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
We can achieve the utmost in economies by engineering knowledge; we can conquer new fields by research; we can build plants and… — Edward Stettinius, Jr Copy Share Image
“Inequalities are inevitable under capitalism, but no other advanced economy has such a hyperconcentration of wealth. In fact, as we’ve seen, America… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of institutions in the economic world which depart from the simple price/market model which I worked on in… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
If capitalism worked as the socialists think an economic system ought to work, and provided a constant equality of living conditions for… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Part of people's concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn't holding and we're not quite yet… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we attempt to preserve the consumer economy indefinitely, ecological forces will dismantle it savagely. If we proceed to dismantle it gradually… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
“Any economy in which the most common tasks are the shuffling of paper, the punching of buttons, and the running of mouths… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, the general principle for our economic development in China is still that formulated by Chairman Mao, that is,… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Economists believe there are three reasons why the Russian economy is doing so poorly. One, economic sanctions are working. Number two, low-price… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline… — Tom Winnifrith Copy Share Image
Unfettered market American-style capitalism doesn't work. Developing countries can't afford that kind of luxury. They just can't afford it. Period. If there's… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
As a steward of the U.S.economy and financial systems, the Treasury has helped lay the groundwork for the American economy to become… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I remember being in the Ontario Legislature and the Liberals yelling over at me about the fact that the dollar was rising,… — Jim Flaherty Copy Share Image
Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies,… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
I am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
When you learn economy. It strips away self-indulgence. Just in the act itself it requires a certain amount of humility. You have… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We are living through the most profound changes in the economy since the Industrial Revolution. Technology, globalization, and the accelerating pace of… — Bruce Tulgan Copy Share Image
Lawmakers who interfere with commerce and the normal creation of jobs in an economy run the risk of doing harm rather than… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Every dollar the Federal Government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us will make our economy… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
What neo-capitalism does so brilliantly is that it's always subdividing and dividing, so that people are never able to be joined in… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
