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You can sum up what has killed capitalism in four words: too big to fail. — Gerald Celente Copy Share Image
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We need to have an economy that works for everybody, not just people on the top. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.” — Christopher Caudwell Copy Share Image
At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims… — David Packard Copy Share Image
There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated,… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
“The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
“One conceit of economics is that markets as a whole can perform fairly rationally, even if many of the participants within them… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a social science of ethics… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The problem with an economic meltdown is that the responsibility and the challenges to deal with the environment are squandered. That's an… — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
“That being said, it may be that opponents of bailouts are not worried about public officials' behavior at all. Perhaps the strategic… — Richard Schragger Copy Share Image
I mean the whole economy just comes to a grinding halt. Competence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen.… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The question of socialism or communism or capitalism or between the left and right – I think the important question is between… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
“In this zero-marginal-cost economy, the only way to make money is to scrape consumer data from your users and sell it to… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
“Imagine if the population were to discover, through real life experience, what it is to conduct their lives with a currency that… — Phil Champagne Copy Share Image
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