Capitalism’s biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
The linear, single species idea of farming is an assault on ecological function. Something's going to break down in that system -… — Joel Salatin 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
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
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
“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
Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“The social system of capital separates most people from the conditions of existence. This compels the vast majority to accept the mediations… — Wolfi Landstreicher Individualism and Communism Copy Share Image
When you've got a economy in which 40 percent of economic growth is happening in the financial sector, that turns out that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The free market system of capitalism enhances freedom in three ways. Traditionally freedom of exchange has been seen as a basic form… — Cudd/Holmstrom Copy Share Image
...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
“The real nemesis of the modern economy is ecological collapse. Both scientific progress and economic growth take place within a brittle biosphere,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The notion that property is the means to all other means was ruled out by the new radicals. The deep seated ressentiment… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has… — Lawrence Venuti 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
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
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
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
Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself… — Slavoj Žižek 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
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
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
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
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
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
Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and re-balance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense… — Ted Yoho Copy Share Image
The single biggest issue that I'm very sensitive to is inflation. I'm very concerned that this extended period where the interest rates… — Sam Zell Copy Share Image
Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
Interest rates are going to go up because employment is going to go up. If employment goes up, then our apartments get… — Sam Zell Copy Share Image
The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those gray areas,… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
