In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something,… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Microeconomics: The study of who has the money and how I can get my hands on it.Macroeconomics: The study of which government… — Gary North Copy Share Image
Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
The economy and its dismal status is the result of policy decisions that Obama has made and put into place. It's not… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
One of the favorite things I've learned about Michigan State is that they set up a 'Women's course' in 1896. It sounds… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“did you ever hear of a politician who wasn’t elected on a platform of economy in office?” “That isn’t it,” I said.… — Erle Stanley Gardner Copy Share Image
We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
You cannot just depend on the market, because the market will say: China needs oil; China needs coal; China needs whatever, and… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story or an animated cartoon. This means that no… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“CAPITALISM: If everything worked without need of repair, upgrade or replacement, then peaceful minds and prosperity would prevail among the masses rather… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“Contemporary capitalism brings everything we do, touch, and are, increasingly under the imperative for profit, causing incessant change with little regard for… — Ronald Aronson Copy Share Image
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige,… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
An intensification of trade or geopolitical tensions - with negative repercussions for global growth and risk appetite - could affect economies that… — Gita Gopinath Copy Share Image
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
My principal work now lies in tracing out the exact nature and conditions of utility. It seems strange indeed that economists have… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
I'm concerned with the world economy, I'm a specialist in forecasting in that area, and I have a lot of influence in… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme. One of my roles was as a commercial… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“production capability increases through investment and productivity gains, allowing supply to expand to sustain the growing demand and to generate increasing net… — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share Image
It's a film made in a very radical creative manner. It was possible because we didn't have to pander to capitalism. I… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education.… — Stephen Pagliuca Copy Share Image
Funnily enough, the Federal Reserve produced comics about monetary policy, and there is a good comic book guide to microeconomics and macroeconomics… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
America is the largest investor in the technologies necessary to be able to say to people, 'You can grow your economy so… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to… — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
![“They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being pushed, academic economists were explaining the limitations of markets for instance, whenever information is imperfect, which is to say always.” quote by Joseph Stiglitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/184/joseph-stiglitz-1351_academic_they-free-market-policies-were-never-bas_1158951.jpg)
![“It's a film made in a very radical creative manner. It was possible because we didn't have to pander to capitalism. I think the film is also a humanistic cry for help for animation. It's a film [Boy and the World] with sensitivities completely opposite to what the market wants to sell.” quote by Alex Abreu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a5/alex-abreu-19959_animation_it-s-a-film-made-in-a-very-radical-creat_1832739.jpg)
