The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it… — David Korten Copy Share Image
In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Minority-owned small businesses are an indispensable economic engine for our city and entire nation that create jobs, drive innovation, as well as… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Many bought into the idea that America could go from a technology-based, export-oriented powerhouse to a services-led, consumption-based economy - and somehow… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services.… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I find it quite useful to think of a free-market economy - or partly free market economy - as sort of the… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The US economy today is in really bad shape. Our economic growth is minimal, our regulatory burden is horrific, taxes are high,… — Yaron Brook Copy Share Image
He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To ensure that the free world continues to set the rules of the road in the global economy, America and its allies… — Will Hurd Copy Share Image
“No market economy can function properly without the support of legal and moral sanctions, designed to hold individual agents to their bargains,… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'.… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Economic development cannot take a nation forward on its own. We need a society and economy which complement each other. We need… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
One growing threat to the stability of the U.S. economy, and therefore to its capability to continue to direct the global order,… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
The Biden administration's blowout spending and regulatory restraints on the supply side of the economy unleashed insidiously persistent inflation that has eroded… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
“This, of course, is the big dance of capitalism: how to keep morality from gumming up the gears of profit, how to… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“A second line of research has shown that economic stress robs us of cognitive bandwidth. Worrying about bills, food or other problems,… — Martin Meadows Copy Share Image
As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm.… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There are broader and narrower definitions of the new economy. The narrow version defines the new economy in terms of two principal… — Laurence Meyer Copy Share Image
I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics or a non-government organisation when I… — Ben Elliot Copy Share Image
After my 12th, my parents moved to Bangalore while I moved to Mumbai to study Economics at Sophia College. Much unlike other… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I see incredible examples of communities that have a vision for transportation and how it will impact the quality… — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political,… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
In short, it's a great economy if you're a high-level corporate executive or someone who owns a lot of stock. For most… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Both the United States and the world economy have already reached - and surpassed - their sustainable physical limits. Ground water is… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands... I went that way because I wanted… — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image