My father, Donald, came from Jamaica to study economics. My mother, Shyamala, came from India to study the science of fighting disease. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
I believe that capitalism is the one thing in this world that's brought people out of poverty. — Rick Harrison Copy Share Image
“it was the wars of the twentieth century that wiped away the past to create the illusion that capitalism had been structurally… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
“Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is… — Paul Heyne Copy Share Image
It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
It's because finance is so baffling that makes being an economist such a safe option. It nestles down comfortably with psychiatry and… — Dominic Holland Copy Share Image
most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively… — Lachlan Murdoch Copy Share Image
Since the inauguration of Mr. Lee Myung-bak, I was very much disappointed with his politics and policies. Not only in economics, but… — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
My high school, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, showed me that anything is possible and that you're never too young to… — Clara Shih Copy Share Image
I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
“Wealth acquired by creating value for society is not equivalent to wealth that comes from economic rents. For example, a very important… — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
I often think that the reason capitalism hasn't completely destroyed everything is that a huge amount of anti-capitalist endeavor goes on, from… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
Globalization, meaning the global expansion of a market economy, is the only way we can guarantee widespread prosperity and peace. A lot… — Douglas Massey Copy Share Image
An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
“This points to a nagging and important question about free-market ideologues: Are they ‘true believers’, driven by ideology and faith that free… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Life is about means not ends. There is no utopia to be gained, there is no end-state that is static and eternal,… — Carne Ross Copy Share Image
For the majority of Americans, collectivist or nationalized economy is morally wrong and therefore unjust. For them, free enterprise meets their keen… — Ndabaningi Sithole Copy Share Image
The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand — Dave Allen Copy Share Image
“People who lack economic and social power often expand their physical impact on the world." "-In Pursuit of Silence” — Lessing Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around. — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“Adam Smith himself made the analogy of the economy as a watch or a clock that once set in motion continues on… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. — William Feather Copy Share Image
Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it. — Al Capone Copy Share Image
Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Capitalism might everywhere be spreading havoc, but it is also triumphant everywhere. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100,000 annually through a salary.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily… — David Hemenway Copy Share Image
“decisions made by economic actors (households, firms, the state) are constrained by limited information.” — Jean Tirole Copy Share Image
