The ability to work with systems of general equilibrium is perhaps one of the most important skills of the economist - a… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game.… — Sir John Richard Hicks Copy Share Image
It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make… — Maria Cantwell Copy Share Image
In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
There are limits to what we can do. That's for sure. That is true. One of the downsides of a growing economy… — Christy Clark Copy Share Image
Cities could open up their property and assets to sharing economy apps that make it easier to find parking spaces or homes… — Pierre Nanterme Copy Share Image
“Some say it's wrong to profit from the misfortune of others. I ask my students whether they'd support a law against doing… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Unless the fundamental categories of economics such as 'property' were to be redefined in a radically personal way the liberal rationalist curse… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“You might be interested in his economic philosophy, Mr. Mason. He believed men attached too much importance to money as such. He… — Erle Stanley Gardner Copy Share Image
Climate change brings pressures that will influence resource competition between nations and place additional burdens on economies, societies and governance institutions around… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
I often use music as a handle for very emotionally explosive substances: love, sex, God, fear, doubt, politics, the economics of the… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Whether the flavour of economic advice you like is conservative or liberal, you will find that flavour available from some 'reputable' economist,… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
The mischievous idea that all public needs should be satisfied by compulsory organization and that all the means that individuals are willing… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Health is more than absence of disease; it is about economics, education, environment, empowerment, and community. The health and well being of… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to… — James Tobin Copy Share Image
I think business, government and unions have to work together, and the common enemies to the global economy. We're being beaten by… — Stephen Pagliuca Copy Share Image
Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics. Yet, whilst films such as 'The Pirates of the… — Peter Middlebrook Copy Share Image
“One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fundamentally transforming the foundations of the economy is the biggest contribution we can make towards building a sustainable future. The current economic… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence"… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Tastes and behavior are important in economics. Nobody denies that. But the question is: How much of behavior is irrational, and how… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
I have problems with this very extreme form of capitalism where the pendulum has swung so far in one direction, where the… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy;… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The 'economy' became a god such as never before, and a happy, successful society was one that could please this god -… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image