The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
To ensure stable and sustainable economic growth, world leaders must re-examine the international rules of the monetary game, with advanced and emerging… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors.… — Robert Zoellick Copy Share Image
People think that this concept of GDP is scientific economics, partly because it has a precise number and can be quantified. But… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Depicting rational economic man as an isolated individual – unaffected by the choices of others – proved highly convenient for modelling the… — Kate Raworth Copy Share Image
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
“By its largely rhetorical devotion to the free market and its actual policies of constructing a permanent war economy, conservatism helps to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Central planning inevitably leads to economic chaos and failure. Friedrich Hayek called the delusion that a single person or a group of… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and… — Dani Rodrik Copy Share Image
“only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. “Fear,” he used… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Quite apart from our desire to avoid destroying the planet or economic meltdown, I offer another reason to position cooperation at the… — Oliver James Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb… — Martin Wolf Copy Share Image
Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time… — Pete Holiday Copy Share Image
The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business… — Lord Clyde James Avon Clyde Copy Share Image
Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I certainly wake up every morning and thank God that I'm not a novelist because the theater is tough, but novel writing… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money,… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Neither Obama nor Romney will be able to 'heal' our 'pockets' during the next four years. The only thing I'm sure about… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
“All rational action is economic. All economic activity is rational action. All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capital investment in fixed assets that produce real goods is the actual driver of long term economic growth, and until slick financiers… — Richard Karn Copy Share Image
It doesn't really matter who owns things so long there is enough competition, which means lower pricing, better quality goods, more variety,… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
When economic structures and policies allow people to have access to capital, it releases a host of productivity that could humanize many… — David Kim Copy Share Image
To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism… — Bob Black Copy Share Image