here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs or international conglomerateurs, or large financial institutions buy or create mutual fund management companies to create a return on their own… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it;… — Michael Berryman Copy Share Image
The consequences for human welfare involved in questions like these are simply staggering: once one starts to think about them, it is… — Robert Lucas, Jr Copy Share Image
People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only… — Paula Dobriansky Copy Share Image
Economic desperation often drives wildlife destruction like poaching or illegal logging. But trade can help create powerful financial incentives for communities to… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I want to remind you right quick what this country has been through, and the challenges this economy had faced over the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
... placing economic activity in the context of the whole earth requires attention to the question of scale. Bigger is obviously not… — John B. Cobb Copy Share Image
A different set of incentives from rising in an economic establishment where the rewards system, again, the reinforcement, comes from being a… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“I happen to believe that the deepest value of fiction is that, in its very fictiveness, it is the one arena where… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
It's really true in this country that more and more Americans think that underneath the economic crisis there's a values crisis, and… — Jim Wallace Copy Share Image
There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
One of the strengths of the U.S. economy is its ability to most efficiently employ resources both domestically and from around the… — Gita Gopinath Copy Share Image
Instead of presiding over an economic system that panders to big business and a wealthy elite, a more human economy must be… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
For most progressives, what happens in families is a matter of "just" women's issues and children's issues. So progressive movements have focused… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
I was very interested in politics in college and was heading to be a lawyer. I have a degree in economics and… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
When our markets work, people throughout our economy benefit - Americans seeking to buy a car or buy a home, families borrowing… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
“Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Governments should look at investment in broadband as a national priority on the grounds that having broadband access for virtually everyone creates… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like… — Lars Peter Hansen Copy Share Image
Republicans drove us into debt with two wars and the Bush tax cuts. Now they want to pay for that debt with… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
You can't have 23 million people struggling to get a job. You can't have an economy that over the last three years… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
For many food poverty is the product of a toxic combination of low wages, austerity economics, spiralling food prices and lengthy delays… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
One of my favorite indicators of the near-term trend for the economy is auto sales, since folks tend to buy a car… — Kevin Hassett Copy Share Image
The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
If you would not confront your neighbor and demand his money at the point of a gun to solve every new problem… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and… — Allen West Copy Share Image
The technologies for the alternative energy sources exists today. The economics are compelling. The public health is compelling. Why would we maintain… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their… — Walther Rathenau Copy Share Image
There are winners and there are losers. And as much as we would like to help the losers, if we do it… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image