Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
On the economy, the U.S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we… — Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Copy Share Image
Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity… — Kurt Bills Copy Share Image
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
“...capitalism is too important and complex a subject to be left to economists. Achieving a critical comprehension of it requires perspectives beyond… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
I still believe that, in the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
The prudential regulation that I have put in place has been absolutely critical. The fiscal policy which we have put in place… — Peter Costello Copy Share Image
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“When economic interest is seen behind the political clauses of the Constitution, then the document becomes not simply the work of wise… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
“Instead of arguing about making sacrifices, let’s talk about how we can make money. Instead of pitting the environment versus the economy,… — Michael R. Bloomberg Copy Share Image
We've now become conscious of the uncalculated social, economic, and environmental costs of that kind of "unconscious" capitalism. And many are beginning… — Patricia Aburdene Copy Share Image
I find it remarkable that virtually all of the large difference in labor supply between France and the United States is due… — Edward C. Prescott Copy Share Image
Quickest way to build trust: Keep promises you make, don't over-promise. Over-deliver, don't under-deliver. If you say you'll do something, make sure… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
In my junior year in college, I was getting kind of tired of French. So, I took an economics course, and I… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
[Ruling elie] haven't given up on neoliberal ideology, they use it. And I think they've normalized that ideology, the notion that, for… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of things we all know that don't want to face. I hope you already know that. It will… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
When you see a Jamaica video, it's always the hood. Everybody in the video's got guns, and the world looks at it… — Shaggy Copy Share Image
I'm constantly being courted by labels and their backing. Obviously the market is there when you talk about the economics and the… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
“At the root of capitalism poverty one always finds unemployment and underemployment what Mark called the industrial reserve army which directly deprive… — SWEEZY Paul M. BARAN Paul A Copy Share Image
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and… — Donna Shalala Copy Share Image
“For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The tech-driven economy leads to a two-tier job market where workers are either critical or 'commodity.' This divisive 'winner-take-all' mentality hurts most… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Our country today is at a cross-point of several crises that were triggered by three groups of causes: the effects of the… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The 20th Century approach to economics, resource depletion and over-consumption means we boom and bust until we bust more than we boom;… — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements,… — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image