More than any other issue, economists have kind of been boosters for trade. — David Autor Copy Share Image
Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Rejecting predatory capitalism in America is a way to respect and honor America.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science. — Steven F. Hayward Copy Share Image
I want to achieve a virtuous economic cycle by raising the incomes of not just a certain segment, but a broader range… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
If you want to learn real economics instead of neoliberal junk economics, read Michael Hudson's books. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
I'm going to teach high school. History and economics. I may even coach wrestling. Hey, Indiana Jones taught school, too. — Erik Prince Copy Share Image
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws. — Mariano Rajoy Copy Share Image
On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary. — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
The profound lack of economic opportunity for those left behind by globalization has created an ever-widening gap between the 'haves' and the… — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there… — John Adams Copy Share Image
...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
But when reason and the study of history began revealing the irrationality, the limitations, and the merely transitory nature of the capitalist… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I've been a foodie most of my life. I started when I lived for a year in Germany in my early 20s,… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
My general view is that capitalism is an amazing innovation and job-creation machine. But what we've done historically that has been so… — John Delaney Copy Share Image
Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I think the critical point, really, is that we need to focus black economic empowerment more on the creation of new wealth… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
My position is that the rate should align with the level of economic development. Because it is always about a balance, a… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Some years ago John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in an essay on his efforts at writing a history of economics: 'As one approaches… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
When we spoke about workplaces in 1972 we mainly were referring to old-line manufacturing firms, on the one hand, and Main St.… — James O'Toole Copy Share Image
In pursuing economic growth, India and the United States share similar values and similar challenges. We understand that the global economy is… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I may be a dreamer, but I think monetary economics should be a hot topic. — Maxime Bernier Copy Share Image
Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth. — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image
If we are to transition to a new economy and to lead it, we must start by transforming our schools. — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of… — John W. Snow Copy Share Image
What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else... — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
