Men will look back in amusement at the pretence that once caused people to refer to General Dynamics and North American Aviation… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system. — David Korten Copy Share Image
“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history. — Molly Quinn Copy Share Image
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Only one thing can allow a business to transcend the daily brute struggle for survival: monopoly profits.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Buffett asserted that the tendency to project out very high rates of growth has caused investors to lose tons of money. The… — Daniel Pecaut Copy Share Image
I am a strong believer in the free market. I am a strong believer in capitalism. But, I am also a strong… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Although many sociologists still echo Max Weber’s (1864–1920) claim that capitalism originated in the Protestant Reformation, capitalism actually originated in the “depths”… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Behind the criticism of fashion as an artistic medium is a highly ideological prejudice: against markets, against consumers, against the dynamism of… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we… — Bev Perdue Copy Share Image
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Money has an even darker side. For although money builds universal trust between strangers, this trust is invested not in humans, communities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump and all the Republicans believe in the theory of trickle down economics which is a theory discredited even by the… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
“Economics also has to become a fundamentally monetary discipline—from the consideration of how individuals make market decisions through to our understanding of… — Steve Keen Copy Share Image
The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself...… — Theda Skocpol Copy Share Image
“Emphasizing the ability of products to augment human capacity can help us refine what we understand as the economy. It helps us… — César A. Hidalgo Copy Share Image
The Occupy Wall Street collective is confused about what it wants but it wants it now! Some of the loonier demands from… — Mike Rosen Copy Share Image
“How you think and create your inner world that you gonna become in your outer world. Your inner believe manifest you in… — Rashedur Ryan Rahman Copy Share Image
China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets. — Virginia Foxx Copy Share Image
Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
In economic terms, a kiss is a commodity for which demand is always higher than supply — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema. — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image
As a former Bank of England economist, I know how important our institutions are in providing the stability and certainty that strong,… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
“Capitalism may be the unequal distribution of wealth, socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.” — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“An economics of systems only-an economics of markets but not of men-is fatally flawed.” — George Gilder Copy Share Image
We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification. — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
Iowa's small businesses are the lifeblood of our communities and the engine behind our economy. — Kim Reynolds Copy Share Image
I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
We are looking at ways to shift the balance of taxation away from work and on to the practices that are destroying… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
In economic theory the conclusions are sometimes less interesting than the route by which they are reached. — Piero Sraffa Copy Share Image
“Pomeranz, K. (2000) The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.” — Jane Pollard Copy Share Image