Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities. — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets. — Maria Cantwell Copy Share Image
“Robert Owen’s was a true insight: market economy if left to evolve according to its own laws would create great and permanent… — Karl Polanyi Copy Share Image
An economic strategy built around hiking taxes for business means one thing: fewer jobs. — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us.… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Economists are said to disagree too much but in ways that are too much alike: If eight sleep in the same bed,… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
In the market economy the worker sells his services as other people sell their commodities. The employer is not the employee's lord.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
“Africa remains a small part of the world economy until 2070, when it begins to expand rapidly, reaching 14 percent, the same… — Jeremy J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is, among other things, the revitalization of the world thanks to the opportunity to be lucky. Luck is the grand equalizer,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Patriarchy creates coercive background conditions for women, and thus patriarchy, not capitalism, is to blame for women’s exploitation under capitalism. Women are… — Cudd/Holmstrom Copy Share Image
Economies and societies invariably remake themselves in the wake of a crisis. It's a necessary component of rebound and recovery. Outmoded industries… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy's debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the 'real' economy's… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Socialist economy cannot reject the huge advantages of the world division of labor: on the contrary, it will carry it to the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. Essentially, what we've been… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“The war between the centrifuge of knowledge and the centripetal pull of power remains the prime conflict in all economies. Reconciling the… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Middle-class economics means helping working families feel more secure in a world of constant change. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
When the banks crashed the global economy in 2007-08, it was they who received a bailout while the rest of us got… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think… — Marc Andreesen Copy Share Image
Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies. — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Irrespective of economic theories, we will take decisions in the larger interest of the poor people. — Amit Shah Copy Share Image
The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work. — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The questions that are beyond the reach of economics-the beauty, dignity, pleasure and durability of life-may be inconvenient but they are important. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Economics teaches humility because it teaches us more about what we can't do than what we can do — Peter Boettke Copy Share Image