The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I think what we're going to ultimately recognize is that capitalism was a transitional and immature system. It got the planet to… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“A variation on this strategy was implicit in a new definition of “poverty” that the Left began to offer in the early… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“Economies about money are called market economies. But we use the term in a more abstract way to refer to any kind… — Ernest Adams Copy Share Image
The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
In a democracy the responsibility for the Government's economic policies, which so affect the economy, normally rests with the elected representative of… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
“Although the view that, once discovered, ideas can be imitated for free by anybody is pervasive, it is far from the truth.… — Michele Boldrin Copy Share Image
“It’s time to put aside the search for economic laws demonstrating that growing national output will eventually deliver ecological health. Economics, it… — Kate Raworth Copy Share Image
“frenzy in the early capitalist states of Europe for gold, for slaves, for products of the soil, to pay the bondholders and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“But in a free enterprise economy, increased production increases the number of jobs. It might be said that one job creates another,… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“As a rule, capitalism is blamed for the undesired effects of a policy directed at its elimination. The man who sips his… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives delocalised capitalist enterprises cheap labour… — Jacques Ranciere Copy Share Image
You know, in this business, you don't have any control over what the press says and how they portray things. And that's… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
“If you see your country going through economic problems, the best thing to do is to come up with a strategy, plan… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
It's actually a pretty basic concept: when businesses feel secure and confident, they are more likely to grow, hire, and invest. Conversely,… — Alan Patricof Copy Share Image
The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
“The financial markets are not to be trusted. They expect to be given free reign to make huge profits while the sun… — Peter Stalker Copy Share Image
I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Utility is a metaphysical concept of impregnable circularity; utility is the quality in commodities that makes individuals want to buy them, and… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“Poverty, we have said elsewhere, was the primary cause of wealth. It was poverty that created the first capitalist; because, before accumulating… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
“...the special interests are almost everybody. Everybody perceives they stand to lose if the economy is allowed to evolve. They are right… — William W. Lewis Copy Share Image
I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. The first book in the field… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
The only way to create prosperity is to do more with less. In economic terms, an increase in productivity is an increase… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
“In order for capitalism to evolve from its current toxic expression, I propose the value of international currencies be tied to an… — Said Elias Dawlabani Copy Share Image
Religion is a way to make order from chaos, and I think economics is not dissimilar. In religion and in economics, you're… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
I think in our global economy, uncertainty is ever increasing. So to accommodate to that, we need to build a dynamic economy… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
If economics wants to understand the new economy, it not only has to understand increasing returns and the dynamics of instability. It… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image