Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“People who claim, for example, that capitalism can overcome its dependence on fossil fuel have either not researched the question or they… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force. — Ali Babacan Copy Share Image
Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“Michael Corbett speaks of this in The Outsourcing Revolution, “In many ways, outsourcing may well prove to be the key enabler of… — Kate Vitasek Copy Share Image
As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the… — Rudolf Hiferding Copy Share Image
From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations -… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
“The returns from cotton monopoly powered the modernization of the rest of the American economy, and by the time of the Civil… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory… — Gerard Debreu Copy Share Image
Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon to suppose that the free exchange of property in markets and capitalism are one and the same. They… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The ayatollah sees his economy being crippled. The ayatollah sees that there are 50 percent fewer exports of oil. He sees the… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“...poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The cultural Left has contributed to the formation of this politically useless unconscious not only by adopting “power” as the name of… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“I want economists to quit concerning themselves with allocation problems, per se, with the problem, as it has been traditionally defined. The… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies. — Henry Calvert Simons Copy Share Image
Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed. — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Without environmental sustainability, economic stability and social cohesion cannot be achieved — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
In India and in New York the economy is naked. People are starving physically in India, and emotionally in New York. — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
“Setting a goal is like to set your destination point in your life GPS which could take you to your desire position… — Rashedur Ryan Rahman Copy Share Image
I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
This was 2008, you know. The economy was falling apart, spiraling. And I was hosting a game in New York, and there… — Molly Bloom Copy Share Image
The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Europe is not managing its capitalism very well, it is not a good advertisement of capitalism — Jack Goldstone Copy Share Image
When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary. — William O'Brien Copy Share Image
Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
“CONFIDENCE is not showing off your VANITY, it’s about to be HUMBLED and KIND to others what are you truly SKILLED and… — Rashedur Ryan Rahman Copy Share Image
