I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Steps toward a rapprochement between Israel and the Arab states create a process that turns economics into the moving force that shapes… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think the association of economics with forecasting is unfortunate and is down to the fact that one great way to get… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on?… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
We've all heard about Wall Street greed. I think people are now starting to be a little bit more sensitized to Washington… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The world I grew up in was a brutal one. The murder rate was once seven people for every hundred thousand. The… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
If you go back to Adam Smith, you find the idea that markets and market forces operate as an invisible hand. This… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Americanomics works, and I won't argue that is true. But if the economy is getting better, getting better for who? Well, if… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
Ignorance, as well as disapproval for the natural restraints placed on market excesses that capitalism and sound markets impose, cause our present… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Children learned about the adult world by participating in it in a small way, by doing a little work and making a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The basic aggregate measure of gearing or leverage is telling us that today's advanced economies' operating systems are more heavily dependent on… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
“Our current economic crises stem, at least in part, from our inability to recognize the storage bias of the money we use.… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“If you are ever going to become the kind of person who achieves huge amounts of success, you must learn to focus… — Clay Clark Copy Share Image
Canada is a malstructured. You could almost call it a failed economy, except that its natural resources are so rich that everybody… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“Given greater freedom about where to send their children, parents of a kind would flock together and so prevent a healthy intermingling… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Under Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K., there was a rewriting of the basic rules of… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
We have an economy that's really geared toward rewarding the investor class. What are we doing to make sure that people who… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
We've become a collectivist economy in Illinois. It's crushing us. And no problem is going to get fixed unless we bring more… — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
In a global economy, the Bush doctrine of unilateralism - going it alone - has been disastrous. It's becoming increasingly clear that… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community… — Brad Henry Copy Share Image
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Governments don't get elected saying, 'We're going to lower GDP next year,' governments get elected on saying, 'We're going to increase prosperity… — James Righton Copy Share Image
I think, overall, India is today on the move. The economic reforms that our salvation lies in - operating an open society,… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
“As Adam Smith argued more than two centuries ago, when individuals freely pursue their own self-interests—presumably, even their most trivial desires—the aggregate… — Paul Roberts Copy Share Image
It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
You know what the economics are like in Red Lake County. There's no way a family can pay $15,000, $20,000 a year… — Collin Peterson Copy Share Image
What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The government doesn't run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image