Modern economics is sick. Economics has increasingly become an intellectual game played for its own sake and not for its practical consequences… — Mark Blaug Copy Share Image
Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Some argue shareholder capitalism has proven more efficient. It has moved economic resources to where they're most productive, and thereby enabled the… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Despite massive evidence to the contrary, libertarians hold tight to their romantic concept of capitalism, which, freed from government interference, serves the… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Physicists have a bias to aspire to be "seers" like Einstein rather than "craftspeople" who do simple and practical research. I have… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Trickle down economics is a fraud. Giving tax breaks to the rich and large corporations does not create jobs. It simply makes… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
My own kids are absolutely allowed to help me cook it. They of course have the added bonus of knowing how to… — Nadiya Hussain Copy Share Image
“What the hell’s the matter with you men? Are you cowards as well as stupid? You boys make me sick. I’m done… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
It took the national debt two hundred years to reach $1 trillion. Supply Side Economics quadrupled the national debt to over $4… — Ed Schultz Copy Share Image
The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“An economy that depends on slavery needs to promote images of slaves that “justify” the institution of slavery. The contemporary economy depends… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Our aim was not to create profit, but jobs,' Sanchez Gordillo explained to me. This philosophy runs directly counter to the late-capitalist… — Dan Hancox Copy Share Image
“Most people learn their trade – almost always farming – from their parents or village communities. Industrialization changed all that. People had… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“Some economic inequality critics go further and contend that there comes a point at which inequality undermines progress—and, by and large, they… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade,… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is… — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
Parents, teachers, professors, economists, pundits, entrepreneurs, tinkerers and misfits all have to do a better job of unapologetically singing the praises of… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families,… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
“But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
“We need to crush the Invisible Hand. The economy isn't a natural phenomenon. It is just a tool or a mean, that… — Jean Ziegler Copy Share Image
This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
“What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
You know, whatever it takes. It's very important obviously from an economic point of view because of the need for innovation, for… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I love creating things, and as an entrepreneur, I've taken on quite a lot of major corporations and done well. Capitalism is… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands,… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“Bhutanese believe that economic development should never come at the cost of their people’s happiness. Therefore, in every trade deal the government… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
If I'm watching my son play soccer, that's what I'm doing. If I'm going to a school concert, that's what I'm doing.… — Gail Kelly Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If the world economy is divided into isolated economic blocs of this kind, it will be rather difficult to achieve the same… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
We have the capacity to create a remarkably different economy: one that can restore ecosystems and protect the environment while bringing forth… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“we decided to take Drucker’s advice and follow the money. First, we dubbed the amount of cash and coin people spend each… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
As we pursue our strategies world-wide, we accept a social and environmental responsibility as well. These responsibilities include the promotion of a… — John F. Smith Jr Copy Share Image
Basically, movies come down to economics, and they're always too expensive. From a producer's point of view, an actor is either going… — Ewen Bremner Copy Share Image
